Secondary sources describe, discuss, interpret, comment upon, analyze, evaluate, summarize, and process primary sources. Secondary source materials can be things like books or articles found in scholarly journals that discuss or evaluate someone else's original research.
The Fine Arts Library and other UT Libraries have thousands and thousands of books on all conceivable topics in their collections. You can perform author and/or title searches in The Library Catalog to find both print and eBooks. You can also search by subject headings and keywords.
Keyword Searching
Use keywords to search for artists, art movements, materials, or your topic.
Examples:
Title
Use the title of a book you are looking for in a catalog search.
Example: Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
Subject Search
Use the subject search to find books related to your topic (Advanced Search --> Click on "Any Field" dropdown and select "Subject"; enter a subject search term).
Example:
You can also try browsing the stacks in person at the Fine Arts Library. The books are located on the 5th floor and are cataloged by Library of Congress Classification. Try looking in these sections for the books that you need.
Art-General (N)
Architecture (NA)
Sculpture (NB)
Drawing (NC)
Commercial Art (NC 997)
Painting (ND)
Prints, Graphic Arts (NE)
Decorative Arts (NK)
Design History (NK 1100 - NK 1400)
Furniture (NK 1900 - NK 2750)
Art Theory (NX)
Printing (Z 116 - Z 265)
Photography (TR)
Industrial Design (TS)
Typography/Typesetting (Z 250 - Z251)
Bibliographies can be very useful in collecting a group of information resources on a particular topic, Resources collected and published as bibliographies have the added benefit of being recommended by an expert in the field, though they may not include the most recent publications. Library catalogues are good sources for comprehensive searches of the literature.
These are usually multi-volume sets that chronicle the entire output of an artist's career. Extensively researched, they are often considered definitive pieces of scholarship. While not every artist merits a catalogue raisonné, the library has examples for many artists. Catalogues Raisonnés are also often broken down by media, for instance "the complete paintings" or "the complete drawings." To find catalogues raisonné, search "catalogues raisonne" AND the artists name as a keyword search.
African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History by 
African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present by 
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by 
Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights by 
History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present by 
The Routledge Companion to African American Art History by 
Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015 by 
We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85: A Sourcebook by 
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