Research Guides: Art: Getting Started

Art on the Davidson College campus

Click here to view information about the sculptors whose work is featured
in the Campus Sculpture Program.

Click here to view the Davidson College Van Every Smith Gallery collection

Call: 704-894-2332

Or Text: 704-308-3732

Welcome to the Art research guide! Use this guide as a starting point for your research in this subject area.

A&AePortal
Ebook collection covering broad topics on art, film, photography, and architecture. Sub-disciplines include African American and Black Diaspora, Latin America, Native North American, Gender studies.
With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Yale University Press developed this innovative site.

Grove Art on Oxford Art Online
Grove Art Online is a scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Searchable on the Oxford Art Online platform offers authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources within the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Updated regularly.
Oxford Reference
The Art & Architecture collection on Oxford Reference contains information on artists, architects, works, and buildings as well as the terminology, concepts, movements, techniques, and organizations relating to all periods within these fields. Entries are complemented by illustrative line drawings and chronologies.
Search by subject "Art and Architecture" to view the collection of 13 ebooks.