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).

African American art African American artists

Africa—art Artist’s name

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
• 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