Art History

• On campus and online resources

• Journal articles

• Internet

• Research Tips

In the PHC Library catalog, you can search a variety of resources by title, author, keyword, or phrase, linking you to ebooks, print books in the on-campus collection, and journal articles from both general and subject specific databases. The more specific your search terms, the more specific the results will be. 

If you are accessing electronic resources from off-campus and are required to log in, use your student portal user name and password to gain access. If you have difficulty with the website or accessing any resources, please let library staff know by email at askalibrarian@phc.edu or  library@phc.edu. 

Professional library assistance is available on campus, by phone at 540-441-8400, or by email at askalibrarian@phc.edu.

Art history research tips:

• Keywords: Try different key words in your search. “Contemporary American art” or  “20^th century American painting" or “Modern art United States,” may all yield good, but differing, results.
• Quality: Print publications after 1990 will have a better quality of art reproduction than earlier editions due to improved color printing processes.
• Do you know which museum holds the art work you are researching? The museum’s website often offers unique information about the work not available from other sources.

Internet sites

• WikiArt is an excellent source of high quality images of classical art pieces.
• The Metropolitan Museum (Heilbrunn) offers images of all the works in the collection with detailed analysis, art history chronology, and essays on all aspects of art and art history.
• Banksy includes images of his work, a question and answer section, and his email address.
  
• Getty Research Portal provides global access to digitized art history texts.
• SmArthistory provides authoritative, accessible, and engaging information from hundreds of scholars.
• Artstor Open Collection search images in the Open Access Collection from Artstor.
• Many fine resources are linked from the library's Art History section of the Electronic Resources webpage.