LibGuides: ARTE 313: Fiber Exploration: Home

Welcome to the Library Course Page for Fiber Exploration ARTE 313

This guide is intended to help you locate information for your research and to complete your assignments. If you need any further assistance, please contact your librarian, Rachel Crane, by email at: Rachel.Crane@wichita.edu or by phone at 316-978-5078.

For more information on other art-related issues, please explore the:
WSU Libraries subject guide for Art & Design.


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Online Resources

Art Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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A resource for art information indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating back to 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals. It also indexes and abstracts over 13,000 art dissertations and indexes almost 200,000 art reproductions. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus.
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from art periodicals published worldwide. Includes reproductions of works of art and books reviews. Coverage of indexing: 1984-present; full-text: 1997-present. (Combine with Art Index Retrospective to extend coverage back to 1929.)
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Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations to articles in art periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications including reproductions of works of art and book reviews. Coverage: 1929-1984. (Combine with Art Full Text to extend coverage to the present.)
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Online version of the comprehensive art reference work -- Oxford Dictionary of Art (formerly Grove Dictionary of Art). Covers all visual arts from prehistory to the present.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
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The most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more. Coverage dates: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, "select" Full Text 1994+
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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For Optimal Performance, use Firefox or Edge. Full-text access to current content from high quality, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences, including literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Coverage varies.
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ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts of articles in thousands of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers in over 150 academic disciplines. Includes full-text access to over half of the journals. Coverage: 1971-present.
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Class N Fine Arts
WSU Online Catalog
Search for books, ebooks, videos, and other materials held by WSU Libraries.

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WorldCat (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
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World's most comprehensive bibliography with over 40 million records of all types of materials (e.g. books, dissertations, manuscripts, serials, sound recordings, videos and more) cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Coverage:1200-present. Selecting WSU custom page provides localized content from Wichita State University Libraries' collection.

Some selected titles:

Complex Cloth by Jane Dunnewold; Melissa Lowe (Editor); Cheryl Stevenson (Contribution by); Laurel Strand (Illustrator)
Call Number: TT699 .D84 1996
ISBN: 9781564771490
In this comprehensive guide, Jane explains her system of layering simple processes to produce intriguing, one-of-a-kind surface designs. Experiment with fiber-reactive dyes, household bleach, fabric paints, water-based resists, photocopy transfers, foiling, silk screening, stenciling, stamping, embroidery, and beading.
A History of Textile Art by Agnes Geijer
Call Number: NK8906 .G413 1979
ISBN: 0856670553
A survey of the world history of textiles from ancient times to the twentieth century.
Labors of Love by Judith Reiter Weissman; Wendy Lavitt
Call Number: TT387 .W45 1987
ISBN: 039475221X
An illustrated overview of traditional American textiles and forms of needlework as they have developed from colonial times to the present day.
The Modern Embroidery Movement by Cynthia Fowler
Call Number: NK9210 .F68 2018
ISBN: 9781350033313
Documenting a previously marginalised movement, Fowler brings together the history of craft, art and women's rights and firmly establishes embroidery as a significant aspect of modern art.
Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art by Phaidon Editors; Jenelle Porter
Call Number: N7433.9 .V58 2019
ISBN: 9780714876610
A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists worldwide.
Quilts and Health by Marsha MacDowell; Clare Luz; Beth Donaldson
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9780253032270
The authors explore the long historical connection between textiles and health and its continued and ever growing importance in contemporary society.
500 Art Quilts by Ray Hemachandra; Lark Books Staff; Karey Bresenhan
Call Number: NK9110.5 .A14 2010
ISBN: 9781600590580
This title presents 500 magnificent contemporary art quilts, made in fabric and other media, and showcasing diverse designs, materials, and techniques.
Kansas Quilts and Quilters by Barbara Ann Brackman; Jennie A. Chinn; Gayle R. Davis; Terry Thompson; Sara R. Farley; Nancy Hornback
Call Number: TT835 .K36 1993
ISBN: 0700605843
A review of quilts and quiltmaking in Kansas, based on the Kansas Quilt Project's catalogue of 13,107 quilts, and featuring interviews with quilters themselves. It focuses on specific types of quilts, as well as regional and ethnic communities, including Mennonites and African-Americans.