Visual Research—Finding Images (print and digital)

Chao Chen, Reference Librarian, (chao.chen@tufts.edu; 7-2057) Tisch Library, Tufts University


Find images in books about specific topics These could be books with art reproductions (including painting, sculpture, illustrations) and/or with photographs.

1. Sample search on stage design for the play, Riders to the Sea. by John M. Synge
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Sample search on topics in Japanese Art
3. Sample Search on topics in American History
4. Sample Search for photographs and other illustrations of buildings and structures
5. Sample Search for architectural drawings, sketches, details, designs and plans

 

The PICTURING HISTORY Series (visual sources in study of history); series editors: Peter Burke, Sander L. Gilman, Ludmilla Jordanova, Roy Porter

Tip: Search the Catalog by title: "picturing" to get a list of books in this series and more.

 

Print Indexes to Reproductions and Photographs of Art Works, etc. (They identify art books with reproductions)

A selected List of Indexes.

Last updated: 7/2007
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