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ART 241 - Researching Modern Art: Getting Started

This is a research guide for Professor Heidi Kraus's Modern Art and Architecture course, covering 1750 to 1945.

Why Reference Sources?

As you are starting to explore a new research topic, reference sources are a good way to gain background information on your topic.  High quality, academic, multivolume sets, will often give you the beginnings of scholarly research on a subject by providing a short bibliography of important works on the subject.

Even with advanced subject knowledge of an area, you will run across unfamiliar people, places and events.  Library reference sources will allow you to quickly fill in those gaps and improve your contextual knowledge with more reliability than a Wikipedia article.

Reference Books

We have several books in our reference collection and in the stacks that might provide basic biographical information on your artist.  Some of these have bibliographies that can provide further resources for your search.