avt 253 photography

AVT 253: Intro to Digital Photography

Fall 2013

WHY DO ART STUDENTS NEED LIBRARY RESOURCES?

In addition to writing papers for class, the

library will help you find resources…

To inspire your work.

To understand how your work connects to the world

around you.

To express your motivations as an artist (e.g., artist

statement).

To explain your work to others like curators and

gallery owners.

RESEARCH IN THE ARTS

LIBRARY RESOURCES

Library Website: http://library.gmu.edu Ask-a-Librarian→ IM… InfoGuides & Research Portals

Library catalog: Books & E-books Videos WRLC And more…

MORE LIBRARY RESOURCES

Research Databases

Art Fulltext

Art & Architecture Complete

*Over 500 art journals in print & online

More Art Databases

ARTBibliographies Modern

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

artnet Price Database Decorative Art

Berg Fashion Library

Bibliography History of Art (BHA)

Design & Applied Arts (DAAI)

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

MORE LIBRARY RESOURCES

WHERE TO SEARCH: DATABASES

Super StoresProQuest Research Library

Multi-subject, popular & scholarly articles, extensive full-text

Academic Search Complete

Multi-subject, popular & scholarly articles, extensive full-text

Specialty Stores Subject-Based Databases

Art Full Text

Has full-text articles from over 300 journals & provides abstracts for over 600 other journals. Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film & architecture.

ARTbibliographies ModernFor the study of modern &contemporary art. Covers all mediums, from painting, sculpture &photography to video, body art &graffiti. Full abstracts & indexing from the late 1960s onwards.

IMAGE RESOURCES

Image Databases

Art Museum Image Gallery

Oxford Art Online

ARTstor

Creator Chuck Close, American

Title Self-Portrait

Work Type Photograph

Date 2000

Material three daguerreotypes

Measurements 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches each

Repository Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Accession Number 2001.46

ARTstor Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art http://www.corcoran.org/home

FINDING WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT

The Starbucks Syndrome

Understanding what search terms to use to get the books & articles you actually want

HOW TO SEARCH: EXAMPLES

Shroud of Turin Holy Shroud

Stained glass Glass painting and staining

Brand design Brand identity; Corporate

identity; Brand development; Logos

Northern Renaissance art Renaissance—

Europe, Northern; Flemish; Netherlands;

Dutch; Netherlandish; add time period like

15th century

ONLINE GUIDES

http://infoguides.gmu.edu/art

ONLINE GUIDES

http://photoportal.gmu.edu

INSIDE THE LIBRARY

INSIDE THE LIBRARY

QUESTIONS

http://infoguides.gmu.edu/arth

Ask-a-Librarian: http://library.gmu.edu/ask

Reference desk: 703/993-2210

Visual Arts Liaison: Jenna Rinalducci

703/993-3720 or jrinaldu@gmu.edu