LibGuides: Art Appreciation (AR 100): Getting Started

Best Bets for Art Appreciation

Arts, The - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Span subjects such as theatre, music, film, design, architecture, dance and more. Comprehensive, multimedia digital content, including video, audio, scholarly journals, eBooks, primary sources and periodicals, enables scholars to study the Arts from anywhere, through the centuries and from around the world.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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Journal, magazine, and newspaper articles about art.
Credo Reference eBooks This link opens in a new window
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Use Credo Reference for summaries of information about artists, art movements, and terms/techniques, as well as images of art.

Smarthistory
Lots of resources (videos, essays, and images) about art across time and around the world.

Writing About Art
A brief guide for college students on approaches to writing about art. The website author is professor and art historian Marjorie Munsterberg.
Three simple steps to understand art: look, see, think
The first few steps to thinking and writing about art.