Artists and Their Works

Mary Anne's examples

Piss Christ by Andres Serrano

Serrano, Andres, 1950. (1987). Piss Christ [Cibachrome]. https://jstor.org/stable/community.13750584

Challenged in 2023 when used in a Santa Barbara, California, Dos Pueblos High School advanced (college-level) art class to foster discussion about "what is art?"

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer, Johannes. (c.1665). Girl with a Pearl Earring [Support: canvas]. Mauritshuis. https://jstor.org/stable/community.10620451

Use the databases below to search for articles about an artist and their specific works. You may also search the Library Catalog for books about the artist.

For example, a search in Art Full-text for articles about Vermeer's work, Girl with a pearl earring, might look like this.

Art databases

JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.
Art Full Text (EBSCO)
Broad coverage of art, architecture, and related areas covering publications from 1984 to present.
Provides broad coverage of art topics including art history, architecture, advertising, archaelogy, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, and film. The database provides citations and abstracts from over 400 leading international art publications from 1984 to present and full text articles from nearly 120 journals from 1997 to present.
Quick Article Search (a set of EBSCO databases) This link opens in a new window
Searches multiple Ebscohost databases simultaneously: Academic Search Premier, APA PsycINFO (psychology), Business Source Complete, CINAHL Ultimate (nursing), Communication & Mass Media Complete, Environment Complete, ERIC (education), Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Humanities International Complete, and SocINDEX with Full Text (social sciences).

Music databases

JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (EBSCO)
An international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and music-related disciplines. Full text is available in 340 of the indexed journals.
Quick Article Search (a set of EBSCO databases) This link opens in a new window
Searches multiple Ebscohost databases simultaneously: Academic Search Premier, APA PsycINFO (psychology), Business Source Complete, CINAHL Ultimate (nursing), Communication & Mass Media Complete, Environment Complete, ERIC (education), Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Humanities International Complete, and SocINDEX with Full Text (social sciences).