Try browsing (in the Reference, Oversize, and Cabell Stacks sections) the N500's to N6000's. 
This area includes:

• Major biennial/triennial exhibition catalogs
  e.g. Whitney Biennial, Documenta, Venice Biennial (Biennale di Venezia), Carnegie International…
• Contemporary or modern art history surveys
• Subject-specific surveys
• Selected major gallery or museum catalogs

If you can't find the book, article, or dissertation that you want at VCU, try these resources to find what you need.

Dissertations may be useful sources for researching the state of the field and the bibliographies can often provide
a wealth of new sources.