Subject
Research Guides
Art History:
African & African-American Art
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on African and African-American art.
Background Information Sources
| Dictionary of Art v. 1 (Africa and African-American art) | REF N 31 .D5 1996 v.1 |
| History of African-American Artists | REF N 6538 .N5 B38 1993 |
| African-American Masters | REF N 6538 .N5 E84 2003 |
| Art of Black American Women | REF N 6538 .N5 H45 1993 |
| African-American Art and Artists | REF N 6538 .N5 L38 1994 |
| Oxford History of Art: African-American Art | REF N 6538 .N5 P38 1998 |
| African Art | REF N 7380 .R43 1996 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers N 6538 .N5 (African American art) and N 7380-N 7399 (African art).
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- General Reference Center/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
- American National Biography: find biographies of deceased African American artists
- Biography Resource Center/InfoTrac: find biographies of living and deceased African American and African artists
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Arts/Performing Arts.
- Art History Resources on the Web: The Arts of Africa
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHafrica.html
information and resource links on African art - Smithsonian African Art
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Art_and_Design/AfricanArt.htm
online exhibits from the Smithsonian’s African art collection - ArtLex on African-American art
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/african_american_1.html
history and examples of African-American art - Selected African-American artists at the National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html
online exhibit from the National Gallery of Art