Art & Art History

1. "Catalog" tab to the Duke Libraries catalog

• Use your natural language to find ONE book that's relevant.
• Click the title of that book
• Scroll down to the "subjects" and look for the library term/subject it groups under your topic
• Click the hyperlink of that topic and get ALL the works we have on your topic!

Here are some subject examples of what you can find:

• Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)   artist's group
• Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 -- Exhibitions    exhibition catalog
• Women artists   topic
• Prints, English -- 18th century.
• Crying in art.   book treating an individual theme
• Feminism and art
• Caricature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.  topic limited by geography and time period
• Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883 -- Interviews.

2. Google Books & Google Scholar

Google Books allows you to search books by key-word.  It does not display the whole book.  Use LIBX.

Google Scholar is the same but for articles.

WorldCat - combined catalog of all libraries [high-end access]

Use Worldcat to locate exhibition catalogs and books for interlibrary loan and archives of collections.  There's a "libraries with this item" link that shows NC libraries first.  There is also an open-source version of Worldcat https://search.worldcat.org/, which has less useful information, but is quick. 

Art Discovery Group https://artdiscovery.net/ - the "art" segment of a Worldcat search.  Easy, direct, free for anyone to use.  Map the holdings listed back to Duke.  Searching directly can be done through https://artlibraries.on.worldcat.org/discovery

Arcade - The collections of the Frick Art Reference Library, the Brooklyn Museum Library and The Museum of Modern Art Library.

https://archive.org/details/metmuseumlibraries  - All the digitized images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's library (via the Internet Archive).  Handy when you only want pdf full text.