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Visual Art Research

Welcome!

On this guide you'll find resources to support your work in the visual arts. In the Image and Recording Collections tab, you'll find resources to identify visual inspiration in images and video. In the Reference by Medium tab, you'll find some resources divided by medium to help get you started. On this tab, I've included some general starting points and reference resources.

General Starting Places

These web sources can help you get started with visual research and research about the visual arts:

Dictionaries

Looking for the right words to describe what you're looking for? Try these:

Find Scholarly Sources

Use these databases to find books and articles on artists or other art topics.