LibGuides: Art: Home

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This guide has been designed with several art disciplines and programs in mind - including Art Fundamentals and Illustration - to act as a portal to research, history, techniques, and more. Use the tabs at the top to navigate your way through.

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Relevant Subject Guides

Be sure to check out these related subject guides for relevant library materials, websites, information sources, and more:

Animation and Game Arts

Graphic Design

Interactive Media Design

Glossary of Art Terms

Museum of Modern Art: Art Terms
Search through the MoMA's Glossary, which explains some of the techniques, mediums, art movements, and other relevant terms, linking to examples within their collection.

Recently Acquired E-Books

Black Futures by Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham
ISBN: 9780399181139
Publication Date: 2020-12-01
What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work-images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more-to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today.
Extra Bold: a feminist, inclusive, anti-racist, nonbinary field guide for graphic designers by Ellen Lupton; Kaleena Sales; Farah Kafei; Valentina Vergara ; Jennifer Tobias; Josh Halstead; Leslie Xia
ISBN: 1616899182
Publication Date: 2021-05-11
Extra Bold is the inclusive, practical, and informative (design) career guide for everyone! Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews.
Making Trouble by Otto von Busch; Clive Dilnot (Series edited by); Eduardo Staszowski (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781350162549
Publication Date: 2022-06-02
This highly original book explores how the material power of design and making can challenge arrangements of agency and domination. Unpacking a series of conflicting cases-from illegal making to the strategic and civic use of crafts to manifest radical alternatives to the current order-it shows how designers and makers can use even basic tools to work towards more.
The Art of Copying Art by Penelope Jackson
ISBN: 9783030889142
Publication Date: 2022-06-20
This book is a study of the history, role and significance of copying art. Copies have enjoyed a different status from authentic artworks and though often acknowledged, very rarely have they been considered collectively as a genre in their own right. This volume showcases a variety of examples--from copies of famous artworks made and used as props in movies to those made innocently by student artists as part of their training.

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