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About this Guide

This is the research guide for the Parsons First Year course, Objects as History. Basic library research is covered in our Introductory Library Tutorial.

Most research papers for this class should use these types of resources:

1. Background Information / Reference (Timeline of Art History, Grove Art Online)

2. Books (MetPublications, Google Books, A&AePortal, physical books)

3. Journal Articles (JSTOR)

Recommended online resources:

Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
This resource pairs essays and works of art to tell the global story of art through the eyes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.

MetPublications
Five decades of Met publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.
Google Books
Use Google Books as a tool to help you search inside of books. Then copy and paste titles into Books & More, the library catalog.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Recent articles are generally not available.

Art History textbook

For print copies of the 6th edition of Art History by Stokstad and Cothren, students can:

For ebook copies, students can:

rent or buy a PDF or EPUB through VitalSource
rent or buy vol. 1 eTextbook for Kindle + rent or buy vol. 2 eTextbook for Kindle

For interactive ebook copies, Pearson has the Revel learning platform. If the instructor signs up for a Pearson "educator" account and adopts the REVEL for Art History product, students can then purchase and access the interactive Stokstad Revel 6th edition with the instructor's course code.

Students can also borrow various older editions including the 4th edition and 2nd edition from the library consortium.

Free Online Resources for Art History

Annenberg Learner - Art Through Time: A Global View
As part of its mission to advance excellent teaching in American schools, Annenberg Learner funds and distributes educational video programs – with coordinated online and print materials – for the professional development of K-12 teachers.
Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)
AHTR is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.
Boundless Art History
In collaboration with the Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported these OER courses to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations.
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
Features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art. Lavish illustrations and resources for educators complement each unit. This resource is the result of a collaboration between Grove Art Online and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and it was made possible by the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Smarthistory: the Center for Public Art History
With 503 contributors from 201 colleges, universities, museums, and research centers, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world.

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Objects as History: From Prehistory to Industrialization