Art and Graphic Design

For this assignment, you need scholarly sources to support your visual analysis. Scholarly sources include published scholarly books and peer-reviewed articles. Rod Library provides access to a multitude of sources you might find useful for this project. 

You should not only locate sources about your artist and your selected artwork. You need to understand the period in which your artist made this work and the larger themes or concepts related to this work. This means starting by gathering sources that help you understand what you should be searching for in the first place. These sources will not show up in your bibliography but will inform your locating of the sources that will. 

Some things to look for 

• is there an entry on your artist
• the medium they used
• the movement of which they were a part

Databases

Specific Journals to Search or Browse

Rod Library Journals

Beyond Rod Library

Your professor shared links to the homepage of a few academic journals that Rod Library does not currently subscribe to. We might still be able to get those articles for you, but you need to be aware of some things.

1. You will be prompted to pay for full-text access when you search these publication websites. DO NOT DO THIS! Instead, submit an Interlibrary Loan Request for Rod Library to order the article for you or contact your librarian to assist you.
2. Each of these publication websites is different. They can be finicky, but many have a search bar or a place to search in the publication using keywords. 
3. Unlike some of our databases that can search many journals simultaneously, this method requires you to search each journal individually. Because you're working in a group, this could be a task you divvy up among your peers to save time. Consider brainstorming search terms together so you all work from the same understanding of your topic.