This guide aims to provide the briefest of introductions to a range of topics. The links at the top of each box offer a slightly more indepth look into the art of each culture. However, if your research requires more depth or more specificity, please note there are myriad other resources to investigate. Please see a librarian if you would like assistance with your research.
UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial by Find more books on aboriginal art in the library catalog.
Here's the article on aboriginal art from the online encyclopedia of art.
Crossing Cultures: the Owen and Wagner collection of contemporary aboriginal Australian art at the Hood Museum of Art by 
Ancestral Modern: Australian aboriginal art by 
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture by 
Out of Australia: prints and drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas by 
Earth Matters: land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa by Click here for more books on African Art in the library catalog.
Or African Architecture.
Or African Sculpture.
Or African Photography.
Find more on African Art in the online encylopedia of art.
African Textiles Today by 
Figures and Fictions: contemporary South African photography by 
Heroic Africans: legendary leaders, iconic sculptures by 
African Art Now: masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi collection by 
Shine: the visual economy of light in African diasporic aesthetic practice by Earth Matters: land as material and metaphor in the arts of Africa by 
Common Wealth: art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by 
Witness: art and civil rights in the sixties by Find more books on African American Art.
Or on Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Betye Saar, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Bill Traylor, Gordon Parks.
Find more on African American Art in the online encyclopedia of art.
When the Stars Begin to Fall: imagination and the American South by 
Represent: 200 years of African American art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art by 
Separate Cinema: the first 100 years of Black poster art by 
Radical Presence: Black performance in contemporary art by 
Carrie Mae Weems: three decades of photography and video by 
Caribbean: art at the crossroads of the world by 
Imaging the Caribbean: culture and visual translation by Find more books on Caribbean Art.
Infinite Island: contemporary Caribbean art by 
Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging by 
Fiery Pool: the Maya and the mythic sea by 
Art As History: calligraphy and painting as one by Art, Chinese -- 21st century
Art, Chinese -- 20th century
Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912
Art, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
Art, Chinese -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960
Art, Chinese -- Three Kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618
Art, Chinese -- Qin-Han dynasties, 221 BC - 220 AD
Art, Chinese -- to 221 BC
Find more on Chinese Art in the online encyclopedia of art.
Ming: 50 years that changed China by 
Ink Art: past as present in contemporary China by 
Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting by 
Art of change : new directions from China by 
Modern Chinese Artists: a biographical dictionary by 
Nine Lives: the birth of avant-garde art in new China by 
Contemporary Chinese Art: primary documents by 
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art by 
In Harmony: the Norma Jean Calderwood collection of Islamic art by Islamic Art
Islamic Art--South, Southeast, and Central Asia
Islamic Art--Egypt
Islamic Art--India
Islamic Art--Iran
Find more on Islamic Art in the online art encyclopedia.
Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'Ism by 
Beauty and Belief: crossing bridges with the arts of Islamic culture by 
Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century by 
Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by 
Islamic Images and Ideas: essays on sacred symbolism by 
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Seduction: Japan's floating world by More on Japanese Art.
Art, Japanese--20th century.
Art, Japanese--21st century.
Japanese architecture.
Japanese ceramics and pottery.
Japanese design.
Japanese painting.
Japanese photography.
Japanese prints.
Find more on Japanese Art in the only encylcopedia of art.
Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement by 
Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art by 
Gutai: splendid playground by 
Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo: contemporary Japanese ceramics and bamboo art from the Stanley and Mary Ann Snider collection by 
New Territories: laboratories for design, craft and art in Latin America by 
Beyond the Supersquare: art and architecture in Latin America after modernism by Art, Latin American
South American art
Central American art
Brazilian art
Cuban art
Mexican art
Peruvian art
Find more information on Pre-Columbian South American art.
Concrete Invention: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros : reflections on geometric abstraction from Latin America and its legacy by 
Order, Chaos, and the Space Between by 
The Itinerant Languages of Photography by 
Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes by 
Indigenous Beauty:masterworks of American Indian art from the Diker collection by 
The Plains Indians: artists of earth and sky by Native American art
Indigenous art of North America
Indigenous art of Canda
Native American pottery
Find more information on Native North American art from the online encyclopedia of art.
Drawing with Great Needles: ancient tattoo traditions of North America by 
Art in Oceania: a new history by Find more books on the art from Oceania.
Oceania: art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by 
A Little Gay History: desire and diversity across the world by Find more books on LGBTQ art.
Transgender and the arts.
Find more on queer art in the online encyclopedia of art.
Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of early Southeast Asia by 
Negotiating home, history and nation : two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia, 1991-2011 by Southeast Asian Art.
Indonesian Art.
Thai Art.
Vietnamese Art.
Architecture of Southeast Asia.
Find more on Southeast Asian art in the online encyclopedia of art.
Crescent Moon: Islamic art & civilisation in Southeast Asia by 
Dictionary of South and Southeast Asian Art by 
Women Artists: images of nature by More on women and art.
Find more information on women and art history from the online encyclopedia of art and women in art in the 21st century.
Renegotiating the Body: feminist art in 1970s London by 
Les Papesses: Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Camille Claudel
After the Revolution: women who transformed contemporary art by 
Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays by 
Expanding Discourse: feminism and art history by 
