A Guide to Researching Collections in the Ackland Art Museum: Finding Books
Search the Collection
Search the University Libraries Catalog from the above link. Books can be found in the "Books & More" results section. Use books to collect background information and find general overviews of topics.
Finding Art Books
- Select "Art Library" from the Location section of the Refine Your Search menu for the most relevant results.
- To locate catalogs of art museum holdings, search the library catalog and/or Worldcat (to search beyond UNC) for the name of the museum and the subject keyword "catalogs". For example: Ackland Art Museum -- Catalogs
- You can also find museum publications by searching with the name of the museum in the Author field. For example: Ackland Art Museum (with drop down set to "in Author")
Hints for Searching
- Try out lots of different search terms.
- If the work's artist is unidentified, try searching the culture.
- If the object doesn't have a title, try searching the material or type of work.
- Search for books about the time period during which the object was created to find historical context.
Helpful Print Resources
- The Ackland Art Museum: a handbook published in honor of the Museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (1958-1983) byCall Number: N529.C2 A5 1983Publication Date: 1983
A Place for Meaning by
With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Ackland Art Museum welcomed more than thirty professionals--museum directors, curators, educators, scholars, and faith leaders from across America--into a multiyear conversation about how museums might create a common ground for the exploration of art and faith. With candor, Amanda Millay Hughes and Carolyn H. Wood open a window on the inner workings of a museum as it grappled with questions of meaning in the presentation of works of art with sacred content. The text includes more than 80 full color illustrations, essays, and presentations by scholars and museum professionals, as well as practical advice for educators and others interested in teaching and learning about world religions.
Call Number: N72.R4 A28 2009ISBN: 9780974365633Publication Date: 2010-01-04
European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum by
This handsome catalogue presents 267 European drawings and watercolors dating from the 16th through the early 20th centuries. Color reproductions of 73 of the Ackland’s most important Italian, Netherlandish, French, British, and German drawings are accompanied by 194 black-and-white reproductions and 35 supplemental images. Although the Ackland has not previously published its drawings, many of the works are already quite well known, including works by Luca Cambiaso, Pietro da Cortona, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Guilio Romano, Henry Fuseli, and Egon Shiele. Beginning with an overview of the history of the Ackland’s drawings collection, the catalogue examines the most significant works with full-page reproductions and essays that detail the scholarly issues relevant to each drawing, including questions of attribution, date, subject matter, and relationship to other studies or to known projects. In addition, 200 works are presented with thumbnail reproductions and brief commentary.
Call Number: NC225 .A35 2001ISBN: 0965380556Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Dish with Pronk Decoration
Dish with Pronk Decoration, Japanese, late 1730s; Porcelain with cobalt blue, rouge-de-fer, and gold decoration. 1 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gift of Richard D. Pardue in honor of Drs. Leena and Sheldon Peck, 2017.28.
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