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English 1301 : Artist Research Paper
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DEFINE TOPIC

Here is a list of some of the SAC reference materials that can be used for an artist biography research paper.

 Ref N31 .D5  Dictionary of Art (also an online database: Grove Art Online)
 Ref N31 .E4833  Encyclopedia of world art
 Ref N31 .E53 2000  Encyclopedia of artists
 Ref N40 .B53 1995  Biographical dictionary of artists
 Ref N40 .S78 1997  St. James guide to Black artists
 Ref N42 .A78 1995  Artists : from Michelangelo to Maya Lin
 Ref N43 .S57 2001  Women artists in history : from antiquity to the present
   
 Ref N5300.G25  Gardner's Art Through the Ages
 Ref N5300 .J3 2001  History of art
 Ref N6490.C6567 1996  Contemporary Artists (also available as an ebook
 Ref N6505 .W56 1999  Who was who in American art 1564-1975 : 400 years of artists in America
 Ref N6512. A578  American Artists: An Illustrated Survey on Leading Contemporary Americans
 Ref N6512 .E45  Living artists
 Ref N6525 .H34 1997  Leading the West : one hundred contemporary painters and sculptors
 Ref N6538.N5 M3 2001  Biographical history of African-American artists, A-Z
 Ref N8354 .C66 1999  Contemporary women artists
   
 Ref NA200 .W412 2005  History of Western architecture
 Ref NA680 .C625 1994  Contemporary architects
 Ref NA680 .E495 2004  Encyclopedia of 20th century architecture
 Ref NB212 .W37 1986  Contemporary American Women Sculptors
 Ref NX449.5 .L58 1997  Lives and works in the arts : from the Renaissance to the 20th century
 Ref NX456 .K67 2000  Dictionary of the avant-gardes

Click on Articles & Reference to search online databases (24/7) that have full text articles from reference books. The following databases should be helpful for your assignment:

Full text reference articles may be emailed to your address, downloaded, or printed after purchasing a print card.

DEVISE STRATEGY

Once you have used reference books and/or online databases to find basic biographic information you will need to find one art book and one internet source to complete your assignment.

SEARCH SOURCES

Begin at the library's home page at http://www.accd.edu/sac/library/

Click on Books & Media to search the catalog for books, you will also find government documents, microforms, audiovisuals, and electronic/digital resources listed in the catalog.

To find books about an artist you will do a subject search.

Examples of subject searches in the catalog:

  • cassatt mary
  • gogh theo van
  • johns jasper
  • hopper edward
  • leonardo da vinci
  • michelangelo
  • miro
  • okeeffe georgia

If you want to try a keyword search on that page to the right are examples of boolean operators (and, or, and not) and wildcards (*) (**) (?).

Click on View Ebooks to access eBooks only. netLibrary is available 24/7 and you can do a full text search.

Click on Web Guides to find sources on the internet.

Some possible internet sources.

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