This guide is intended to help you research topics in art and art history, a field with a wide variety of library resources. Art research encompasses the study of painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, design, graphic arts, and intersects other subjects such as geography, anthropology, and mass media.
Using the tabs at the top, navigate to locate the specific type of resources that you need: reference encyclopedias and dictionaries, books, journals and research databases, and web resources. Use the tab for Image Resources to find links to many online sources for images you can use for study and research.
Dada collage, attributed to Hugo Ball, c.1915.
What are the key concepts of your topic? Do you need to broaden or narrow your focus? Consider focusing on one or more of the following:
Does your topic overlap other subject areas such as anthropology, geography or political science?
For more tips, see the Writing Research Papers guide.
For tips on creating a bibliography using MLA, see Bibliographic Citations using MLA Style.