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Subject Guide:  Australian Artists
A guide to key Australian artists' resources at the South West TAFE library
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709.01 Aboriginal art
709.94 Australian art
709.94 Works about individual Australian artists
759.994 Australian painting
KEY REFERENCE SOURCES

Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Biographies

 ENCYCLOPEDIAS
For getting basic, summary information about a subject

709.94 M113A

 Encyclopedia of Australian art

DICTIONARIES
For defining terms and clarifying concepts

REF 703 M147

 McGraw-Hill dictionary of art

BIOGRAPHIES
For finding the life histories of artists 

REF 709.94 G372a

 Artists & galleries of Australia
FIND JOURNAL & NEWS ARTICLES

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 Journal and news articles provide current information on a range of subjects

Infotrac database | Infotrac instructions
Find and print articles from a broad range of journals

Age on CD
Find and print Age newspaper articles - 1993+

 
KEY JOURNALS

Print journals
Online journals

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PER 709 ART Art and Australia
Use Infotrac and Austguide for finding articles from Art And Australia

ONLINE JOURNALS
Art and Australia
 Art AsiaPacific
RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS National Gallery Of Australia
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National Gallery of Victoria
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VIDEOS Videos may be viewed within the library.  Art videos are available for loan
VIRTUAL REFERENCE COLLECTION

Web dictionaries
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Images
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 The Virtual Reference Collection is a set of carefully evaluated online reference sources
  • locate images of artworks
  • explore galleries
  • define art terms
  • learn about artists' lives
  • find art history resources
OTHER LIBRARIES

Deakin Library
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Deakin library
Deakin catalog
SWIT students may borrow from Deakin's Warrnambool collection

CAVAL
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TAFE virtual library
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Victoria's virtual library
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