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Books About Image Research

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Related Topics: Art Indexes -- Art Histories

Basic Guides

• How to Research an Art Work (PDF) -- By the New York Public Library
  Detailed guide includes search strategies, dictionaries, art histories, and appropriate catalog search terms. (Be sure to look up any books in HOMER, as the call numbers in this guide are for NYPL, not UConn.)

• Art Research Guides at UConn (PDF) -- These list basic starting points (books and online sources).

  Art & Architecture, Modern
  Art Criticism, Contemporary
  Art Reference Sources
  Landscape Architecture Research (Selected Sources)
  Latin American Art (Selected Sources)
  Prints and Printmakers (Selected Resources)
  Subject Resources for Art & Art History (UConn) -- Web page about art resources.
  Visual Images on the Web

Books about Image Research

These books (located in the Art & Design Library, in the Babbidge Library) teach you how to do image research, or point you to new resources, such as art indexes or Web sites.

Note: Art/Ref = Art & Design Library Reference collection

Evans, Hilary. The Picture Researcher's Handbook: An International Guide to Picture Sources and How to Use Them. 6th ed. Art/Ref/N4000/E8/1996

Heck, Thomas F. Picturing Performance: The Iconography of the Performing Arts in Concept and Practice. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1999. MusicLib/N8217/E55/H43/1999.

Chapter 5 lists "Selected Iconographic Research Resources," listing important pictorial research collections (museums, libraries, print rooms, and picture agencies) relevant to theater and music research.

Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information and the Internet: How to Find It, How to Use It. Art/Ref/N59/J66/1999

Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information: Research Methods and Resources. Art/Ref/f/N85/J64/1990

Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research. Art/f/Ref/TR15/P477/1991

Picture Librarianship. Art/Ref/Z717/P52/1981

Picture Sources 3: Collections of Prints & Photographs in the U.S. & Canada. Art/Ref/N4000/S7/1975

Schultz, John. Picture Research: A Practical Guide. Art/Ref/TR147/S38/1991

Sources in Iconography...: An Annotated Bibliography (comp. Kathryn Jackson). Art/Ref/N7560/B58/1997

Lists resources focusing on specific aspects of art (e.g., images in religious art, music, a particular country, real or imaginary animals, etc.). Has a subject index.

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