如何广、快、精、准地检索美术资料,这是美术工作者经常遇到的一个问题。“工欲善其事,必先利其器。”因此,掌握检索的方法和途径,利用检索工具显得非常重要。本文着重介绍6种美术专业资料检索的方法和途径。 一、美术名词、术语、流派等基本知识的检索 对这类基本资料检索的直接方法是利用美术专业辞典。通常的专业辞典都集中搜集有美术的有关理论、名词、术语、流派、人物等基本知识,并按一定的体例编排,具备较完备的检索体系,能达到迅速检索专业资料的目的。这类工具书如《中国美术辞典》、《美国美术辞典》、《现代世界艺术辞典》等,都是较典型的美术专业辞典。它们通常按学科分类详细排列,检索非常便捷,包括名词、术语、绘 How to retrieve art materials widely, quickly, finely and accurately is one of the most frequently encountered problems for art workers. “Workers want to do their thing, must first sharpen their tools.” Therefore, to grasp the search methods and ways to use the search tool is very important. This article focuses on six kinds of art professional information retrieval methods and ways. First, the art nouns, terminology, genres and other basic knowledge retrieval The basic method of retrieval of such information is to use the art dictionary. The usual specialized dictionaries focus on collecting the basic knowledge about art, nouns, terms, genres, characters and other related art. They are arranged according to a certain system and have a complete search system so as to quickly retrieve professional materials. Such books as “Chinese art dictionary”, “American art dictionary”, “modern world art dictionary” and so on, are more typical art dictionary. They are usually arranged in detail by subject categories, and retrieval is very convenient, including nouns, terms, painted