*Art History Research Guide

On this page, you will find information necessary to obtain books and manuscript resources.

"All the works of an artist".  A scholar or a group of scholars documents every work of an artist's career.  Each work is pictured, with scholarly opinions, provenance (where the work has been), and literature.  The first place to start when researching an artist or individual work. Not all artists have catalogues raisonnés.  Check the IFAR website and the Worldcat database.

If a book you're looking for is at Oxford College, at the Library Service Center, or checked out, don't fear!

Books that are at the Library Service Center or at Oxford can be requested, and checked out books can be recalled.

In Library Search:

1. Click the item you'd like to request
2. Click the "Locate/Request" button
3. Click the "Request Physical Item" link [Note: you will need to be logged in to your account for this to appear]

You'll be notified by email when the item is available.

NOTE: if the item is checked out, the borrower has ten days to return it.

A catalog for libraries worldwide, WorldCat contains citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, and videotapes.

Materials from WorldCat may be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Using Interlibrary Loan (ILL), you can:

• borrow books and more from other libraries
• get copies of articles that Emory doesn't own

You will be notified when your materials arrive (most materials are obtained within 2 weeks).