F&M Library: ART 170

ART 170: How Ideas Become Form

Selected Reference Resources: ART (Ref N31... to NX650)

Grove Art Online: Ref N31 .E533
http://www.groveart.com
Excellent "first-step" resource; includes links to reliable image sources, as well as links to Oxford Companion to Western Art content.
St. James guide to Black artists: Ref N40 .S78 1997
Entries include thorough bibliographical information including exhibition records, collections, publications by and about.
Art books: a basic bibliography of monographs on artists, 2nd ed.: Ref N40 .Z4 F73 1997
Art in world history (vol. 2): Ref N5300 .H674 2004 v.2
Overview of art in a cultural and social context.
Lives of the great 20th-century artists: Ref N6489 .L83 1999
Individual artists and their respective historical contexts; minimal bibliographical information.
Contemporary artists: Ref N6490 .C6567 1996
Artists whose most significant work was created after 1960.
North American women artists of the twentieth century: Ref N6503 .N67 1995
Index to 19th century American art periodicals: Ref N6510 .S35 1999
Vol. 1 = citations; Vol. 2 = author/subject index. Good primary-source locator.
Jacobsen's biographical index of American artists: Ref N6536 .J33 2002 v.1
A biographical dictionary of women artists in Europe and America since 1850: Ref N6757 .D86 1989
Neo-impressionist painters: Ref ND547 .C54 1999
Artists' entries include brief biography, chronology (birth to death), primary and secondary bibliographies, exhibition lists.
Nineteenth-century painters and painting: a dictionary: Ref ND190 .N67 1977
Victorian painters: Ref ND467 .W66 1995
Vol. 1, text; vol. 2, historical survey and plates.
Timelines of the arts and literature: Ref NX447.5 .B76 1994
Synchronous cultural events in the context of world events.
A dictionary of the avant-gardes: Ref NX456 .K67 2000
Covers music, film, visual arts, dance, theater. End of each entry includes bibliographical information, works, Web sites.
Twentieth-century artists on art: an index to writings, statements, and interviews...: Ref NX456 .R59 1996
Excellent source for locating primary-source materials.
Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850: Ref NX452.5 R64 E53 2004
Cultural encyclopedia covering first half of 19th c. in Britain, Europe, Americas.

Selected Reference Resources: 19th & 20th Century History

(Art in context: politics, geography, economics, social norms, gender, religion, family life)

Chronology of world history: Ref D11 .M39 1999
Encyclopedia of world history: Ref D21 .E577 2000
Dictionary of 20th century European history: Ref D424 .T685 1999
The dictionary of the First World War: Ref D510 .P66 1995
Europe since 1945: D1058 .E8754 2001
The 1890s: an encyclopedia of British literature, art, and culture: Ref DA560 .A18 1993
Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture: Ref DD290.26 .E53 1999
In the library catalog do a "words or phrase" search for encyclopedia of contemporary culture to find volumes for other countries.
The encyclopedia of the Victorian world: Ref DA550 .E53 1996
Encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history: Ref E169.1 E624 2001, vols. 1, 2, 3
Encyclopedia of the United States in the nineteenth century: Ref E169.1 .E626 2001
Oxford Reference Online: http://www.oxfordreference.com

The Library Catalog

Search the catalog to find out what books, journals, newspapers, videos, maps, CDs, music, etc., the library owns.

NOTE: There are no journal articles in the catalog!

To find any kind of information on a particular artist, conduct a words or phrase search for the artist's name: john singer sargent
To find sources about a particular artist, conduct a BROWSE Catalog Search by subject for the artist's last name: sargent, john singer
To find sources by a particular artist, conduct a BROWSE Catalog Search by author for the artist's name: sargent, john singer

Online Resources

Art Full Text: Variety of international English-language arts publications. Indexing from 1984 to present, abstracting from 1994 to present. Also available, Art Index - Ref Index Area/Microforms Room - Indexing: 1929-1982
Humanities Full Text: Indexes over 300 English-language periodicals covering classical studies, history, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and related fields. Covers 1984 to the present. Also available, Humanities Index - Ref Index Area - Indexing: 1974-1982.
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art): Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Covers 1973 to the present.
Readers' Guide Full Text: Indexes over 200 popular U.S. general interest periodicals. Covers 1983 to the present.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: Comprehensive indexing of 500 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982.
Lexis-Nexis: Excellent source for full-text, to-date reviews and critiques of artists and exhibitions.
WorldCat: The OCLC Online Union Catalog. Over 50 million records of many types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world. Updated daily.
Yahoo!: Try the Arts & Humanites or Society & Culture. Artists may have their own websites.

Inter-Library Loan

Inter-Library Loan (ILL) is a free service through which the F&M library obtains for members of the F&M community materials not owned by F&M. To use ILL, complete the online request form as completely and accurately as possible. You do not have to know at what library the material you need can be found--ILL takes care of that for you. ILL requests typically take between 5 and 10 days to be fulfilled. ILL articles are yours to keep, and will be sent to your campus mail box. ILL books are available for pick-up at the Circulation Desk, and circulate for the amount of time indicated by the lending library.

Last updated: 9/6/05 ag, contact Louise Kulp for assistance, 291-4242