Art and Artists

• The "Start Your Research Here" box does not search databases deeply, so search these individual databases too. 
  • ProQuest Central includes many newspapers including The New York Times, a very good source of information about artists and art exhibits in New York City.
  • JSTOR also lists excellent articles about art.

Try terms like these, to research the iconography (symbolism), historical and social context of your work of art:

[Name of work or artist] AND  social
                                                politic*
                                                religio*
                                                iconograph* OR symbol*
                                                cultur*

To review database search techniques:

Here are more humanities article databases. Mouse over the database names to see descriptions of each.