Fine Arts

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Reference Resources
• Citation and Style Guides

• Web Resources
• Canadian Art
• Museums & Art Galleries

• Janson's history of art : the western tradition 7th ed.
• Art History
• Elements of design : Rowena Reed Kostellow and the structure of visual relationships
• Encyclopedia of 20th century sculpture
• Atlas of World Art
• The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance
• The concise Oxford Dictionary of art and artists
• Oxford Reference Online: Art & Architecture
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus - from the Getty Museum.

To find books or videos check our Library Catalogue using keywords, titles or authors. You could also try searching using some of the suggested specific subject headings or by browsing for books in the collection using the call number areas.

Fine Art Journals

KUC Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist.


Kwantlen's Fine Art Journal Collection - For print versions you will find the phrase "Kwantlen Polytechnic University Print Journals after the title and a notation stating which campus it is on. The titles of the electronic versions are followed by a link to the article index which will open the journal directly.

• Canadian Art - online home of Canadian Art magazine.

Primary Indexes & Databases for Fine Arts

• Art Index
• ARTstor
• Oxford Art Online

Other Useful Indexes Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online.

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs CBCA (Business)
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• JSTOR

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide

• Art History Resources on the Web - divided by period, this site has links to short articles as well as images. Also included are links to museums, online journals and libraries.
• Art Through the Ages - a directory of links in the visual arts; organized in the same categories as Gardner's Art Through the Ages; covers antiquities to the 20th century; numerous links to webpages about specific movements and artists.
• Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page - from the University of Michigan.
• Creative Research from the British Library
• Voice of the Shuttle - Art and Art History Page.
• Artnet:
• The Getty Information Institute
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History:
MOMA's DADABASE
• Smithsonian Inititution Research & Information System (SIRIS)
• The Art Museum Social Tagging Project a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, and engaging in discussion. We hope to apply what we learn to improving access to works of art.
• Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art - database of images: over 400 Canadian artists represented.

• American Memory a free/open collection from Library of Congress of still and moving images, prints, maps, written and spoken words, sound recordings and sheet music
• Art Museum Network
• The British Museum
• Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Dia Art Foundation
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Louvre Museum
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• MOMA: The Museum of Modern Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• National Gallery of Canada
• Smithsonian Institution The world's largest complex of museums and affliated collections - 136 million artworks, objects and specimens
• Tate Online: British and international modern art
• Uffizi Gallery
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Vatican Museums Online
  Vatican Museums Online's website affords visitors access to the Sistine Chapel, the Gregorian Egyptian and Etruscan Museums, the Pinacoteca, and the Ethnological Missionary Museum.
• Virtual Museum - links to museum web sites from around the world.
• Virtual Museum of Canada - includes virtual exhibits of Canadian art, information about museums, etc.

• Eyelevel An Art blog from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The name Eye Level imparts a sense of clarity to which the blog aspires.
• Resources of Scholarly Societies - Fine Arts - provides links to web sites of scholarly societies in Fine Arts.

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards