Art History Databases, Books and Ebooks
Art History Databases
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
Background information, artist biographies, and images of Western and non-Western art.
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
High-resolution images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and other forms of visual and material culture. Register within Artstor to organize images and create presentations.
- Art Magazine Collection ArchivesReproductions of the print magazines Antiques, ARTnews, and Art in America, with content spanning from 1902 to 2016.
Samples of Art History Books & EBooks (Use ONESearch on Library homepage to find books)
Made in California by Call Number: NX510 .C2 B37 2000ISBN: 9780520227644Publication Date: 2000-11-30This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.
Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World by Call Number: N7428.5 .B73 2000ISBN: 9780810929470Publication Date: 2000-10-01Shows the influence of ancient Indian art on modern artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henry Moore, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, and Joaquin Torres-Garcia.
Chicana and Chicano Art by Call Number: N6538.M4 J25 2009ISBN: 9780816526475Publication Date: 2009-02-14This is the first book solely dedicated to the history, development, and present-day flowering of Chicana and Chicano visual arts. It offers readers an opportunity to understand and appreciate Chicana/o art from its beginnings in the 1960s, its relationship to the Chicana/o Movement and its leading artists, themes, current directions, and cultural impacts.
Peruvian Featherworks by Call Number: F2230.1.F2 K56 2012ISBN: 9781588394682Publication Date: 2012-10-01Feather arts in ancient Peru
The Bauhaus Group by Call Number: N332.G33 W483 2009ISBN: 9780307268365Publication Date: 2009-10-27In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.--From publisher description.
A People's Art History of the United States by Call Number: N72.P6 L37 2013ISBN: 9781595583246Publication Date: 2013-11-05Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond.
Black Art Ancestral Legacy by Call Number: N6538.N5 B525 1989ISBN: 9780810931046Publication Date: 1989-11-01Examines the impact of African culture upon Black visual artists in the United States and Caribbean (Jamaica, Haiti, and the Bahamas).
The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa by Call Number: N6537.A74 A4 2006ISBN: 9780520250444Publication Date: 2006-11-18The scope and stature of Ruth Asawa's work are brought into brilliant focus in this superb book, created to accompany the first complete retrospective of the artist's career. Beginning with her earliest works--drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while studying at Black Mountain College--this beautifully illustrated volume traces Asawa's trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized nationally for her wire sculpture, public commissions, and activism in education and the arts.
Expressionism by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781780428147Publication Date: 2012-01-05Expressionism - new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces these artists and their work
Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future by Call Number: ND793.K63 A4 2018ISBN: 9780892075430Publication Date: 2018-10-23Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements, and esoteric symbolism.
Finding Books from the Library
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Requesting Books in OneSearch
Most books located at other Los Rios libraries can be requested. Click on the book title and look for a link reading Request this item.
At that point you can follow the prompts on the screen to request the book.