LibGuides: Art: Finding Books & eBooks

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The easiest way to find books in our collection is to search the UNLV Library Catalog, listed below. If we do not have what you're looking for, try searching in the other catalogs listed. BorrowItNow, Link+, and WorldCat all allow you to borrow books from other libraries, for free!

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11th century -
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This union catalog contains records of books and other items in libraries worldwide. Items owned by UNLV Libraries are indicated; UNLV students, faculty and staff may request books via Document Delivery Services.
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Helpful Guides

A practical guide to arts-related research by Maggi Savin-Baden and Katherine Wimpenny
Call Number: Online Resource

Publication Date: 2014

This book outlines the principles and practices of arts-related inquiry and provides both suggestions about conducting research in the field as well as case study examples.
Art information and the internet : how to find it, how to use it by Lois Swan Jones
Call Number: Online Resource, Print copy: UNLV Arch Ref, 1st Floor, N59 .J66 1999

Publication Date: 1999

Jones shows researchers how to locate art information online and how to supplement it with information in other formats to produce the best possible research results. This work describes the methodology and resources that art researchers need to find and use information on the Internet.
A short guide to writing about art by Sylvan Barnet
Call Number: N7476 .B37 2014

Publication Date: 2014

This book is intended for art courses where there is a writing component. This text guides art students through the writing process. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture.
Art books : a basic bibliography of monographs on artists by Wolfgang M. Freitag
Call Number: Z5938 .F73 1997

Publication Date: 1997

A revised, second edition of the title originally published in 1985, which lists over 20,000 artists monographs, and covers over 200 artists.
Guide to the literature of art history by Etta Arntzen, Robert Rainwater
Call Number: Z5931 .A67

Publication Date: 1980
Guide to the literature of art history 2 by Max Marmor, Alex Ross
Call Number: Z5931 .M374 2005

Publication Date: 2005

Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 (ALA Editions, 2004) has arrived to record and annotate the best art and architecture books and journals published worldwide in the last two decades of the 20th century. supplement its predecessor by recording important publications produced primarily in western languages.
Art market research : a guide to methods and sources by Tom McNulty
Call Number: N5200 .M39 2014

Publication Date: 2014

This book is intended as a reference guide for art market researchers at all levels. A brief overview of the global art market and its major stakeholders precedes an analysis of the various sales venues (auction, commercial gallery, etc.) where art is bought and sold.

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