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AUTHOR - an artist is considered the author of his or her work
Search by author to find books devoted to an artist's or architect's work (last name first)

example: author = rist pipilotti
example: author = hadid zaha

To find books published by a gallery or museum,
search the gallery's name as author

example: author = P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
example: author = Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
example: author = Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
example: author = Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Gallery of Art

SUBJECT - by finding the exact subject term and then adding in art or pictorial to the subject, you will find a list of works cataloged by that heading

examples:

human figure in art
women in art
war in art
birds in art
maps - pictorial


Limit the Search

A simple catalog search includes materials from all Hilltop campus libraries.
To limit the search to books in the Art & Architecture Library,
choose the Modify Search button on the top of the screen after an initial catalog search.
In the drop down menu for Location,
choose Art & Architecture Library

Other limit options include Date range, Format, Language and List Sorting.

example: human figure & exhibit* includes all Hilltop libraries
human figure & exhibit*, limited to Art & Architecture Library holdings.

KEYWORD - use a keyword search adding words like pictorial or catalog* or exhibit*

Truncate with an asterisk * to search all forms of the root word

pictorial = pictorial works (primarily visual content)
example: ocean & pictorial

catalog* = catalog(s), catalogue(s)
example: catalog* & whiteread

exhibit* = exhibit(s), exhibition(s), exhibited
example: human figure & exhibit*


For complete works of an artist, use the artist's name + the following keywords:

complet* = complete works, obra completa, opera completa, oeuvre complete
example: michelangelo & complet*

raisonne = catalogue raisonne
example: ed ruscha & raisonne


To find exhibition catalogs, use the phrase catalog of an exhibition along with a distinctive keyword, an artist's name, a gallery or museum name

example: catalog of an exhibition and hayward gallery
example: catalog of an exhibition and joseph beuys


In further pursuit of exhibition catalogs:

Art Exhibition Catalog Collection, University of California, Santa Barbara
This collection contains over 95,000 exhibition and collection catalogs and is one of the largest of its kind.

1) Search the PEGASUS catalog (keyword search = individual artist's name, words as phrase) to locate catalogs of group exhibitions in which an artist has participated

2) Search the WU catalog and MOBIUS for the catalog by title. Request the catalog through ILLiad, if it is not available at WU or in MOBIUS.


To find famous works of art, try keyword searching the title of the artwork:

example: virgin of the rocks
example: figures at the base of a crucifixion

"Futuh al-Haramain (Description of Holy Cities) of Muhi al-Din Lar," Islamic, Mid-16th century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1932, New York; ARTstor ID MMA_IAP_10311574891 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Reproduction of any kind is prohibited without express written permission in advance from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”