Why is fair use so important?
Fair use allows you to use copyrighted material in your academic work. By claiming fair use, you can download and use images in your papers, presentations, and capstone projects while you are here at Felician University. You must still include the citation for the piece of art you are using!
Check out this page for tips on claiming fair use and any other questions you may have about copyright.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in the Visual Arts is the go-to resource for determining whether you can claim fair use or not when using copyrighted materials. The Code covers the following five questions:
College Art Association. "Programs: Fair Use." Accessed April 17, 2018. http://www.collegeart.org/programs/caa-fair-use.
College Art Association. "Fair Use at Work in the Visual Arts." YouTube, February 9, 2015. Video, 6:14. https://youtu.be/2Hvec8Z3OSQ.
The following citation formats are in Chicago Manual of Style, as the majority of humanities use Chicago. As always, follow your instructor's directions. If they prefer you to use a different citation and style format, default to their instructions.
Paintings, photographs, and sculpture
Note
1. Artist name, Title of Work, date of creation or completion, information about the medium, location of artwork. [, add the URL if accessed piece of work online.]
Bibliography entry
Artist Last name, First name. Title of Work. Date of completion or creation. Information about the medium. Location of artwork. [insert URL if accessed online.
Example
1. Dorothea Lange, Black Maria, Oakland, 1957, printed 1965, gelatin silver print, 39.3 x 37 cm, Art Institute, Chicago,
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/220174.
Lange, Dorothea. Black Maria, Oakland. 1957, Printed 1965. Gelatin silver print, 39.3 x 37 cm. Art Institute,
Chicago. http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/220174.
Exhibition Catalogs
Treat exhibition catalogs as you would books in Chicago.
Example
Witkovsky, Matthew S., ed. Sarah Charlesworth: Stills. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2014. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the
same title, organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 18, 2014- January 4, 2015.
Need a refresher on how to cite books, articles and websites? Visit our Chicago Manual of Style LibGuide.
The University of Chicago. The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.