ART 241 - Researching Modern Art: Articles

For art related periodicals, Art and Architecture Source is the best database available to you at Van Wylen.  It indexes a variety of art magazines and journals.

• When searching initially, keep searches simple. (artist's name, a couple of topic words, key words from a work of art's title, NOT the whole title)

• Remember!  This search will have some full-text embedded within, but a lot of the full-text articles will not be there.  Use  to check our subscriptions.  Also, we can easily order you articles that we don't have through InterLibrary Loan.

JSTOR is a general journal archive that includes several of the major art periodicals, and it's all full text! 

1.  In the search box, type in a couple of words describing your interests (ex. mondrian and color).  Don't forget to put AND between your search words, because the database will understand this better.

2.  If your results run too broadly. Under "Narrow by Discipline" check the Art and Art History box.  Add Architecture too, if it interests you. 

3.  To further control your search, use special search characters to increase the presence of certain important terms:

• ^# after a word increases the importance of that word in your search relative to the other words (ex. mondrian AND color^4 makes color more important than mondrian)
• ~# after two words in quotes will ask that those word be within # words of each other.  (ex.  color and theory~5)