Scholarly and academic books (sometimes called monographs) are books on a single subject, written by scholars (professors or other academics), and usually published by university presses. These are one of your best resources for research in art history.
Exhibition Catalogs can also give you perspective on how an artists' work has been contextualized. What artists have they been exhibited alongside? What were the themes or ideas guiding that exhibition? These catalogs can also include essays or writings from the exhibit curators and other scholars or critics.
1. Start with the Mason Libraries catalog
2. Look at the museum website where your object lives.
3. Look for books in Worldcat.
Scholarly and academic books (sometimes called monographs) are books on a single subject, written by scholars (professors or other academics), and usually published by university presses. These are one of your best resources for research in art history.
Art catalogs are another major source for research in the arts. These differ from academic/scholarly books in that they usually focus on a single exhibition or documentation of an artists' work, rather than providing extensive analysis or historic research.
To search for art catalogs at Mason and beyond, use the library's Advanced Search:
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