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ARTH 018: Twentieth Century Art
ARTH 018 Twentieth Century Art
Janine Mileaf, Professor
Anne Garrison, Humanities Librarian
Fall 2001
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Finding Articles - Private Web Full-text Resources - Private Web Handbooks and Specialized Dictionaries Biographical Sources Iconography Sources for Locating Paintings and Reproductions Public Search Engines Citation Styles |
Maddox, Conroy: The Strange Country, 1940 [London, Tate Gallery] |
Tripod serves as the primary access point to collections of Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford College Libraries. The catalog contains bibliographic records for books, periodicals, video and audio recordings, CD-ROMs, sound recordings and electronic books, indexes, journals, and primary sources.
In the library catalog, you may search for an item by: Author – including directors, editors, illustrators, translators, and corporate authors; Title – including video and periodical titles, as well as series and alternative titles; Subject -- using the Library of Congress Subject Headings; Word – keyword searching of titles, contents and corporate authors; and additional specialized access points -- Call number, Government Document number, etc.
Finding Materials Using Library of Congress Subject Headings: You have two useful options when looking for subject-related material in the library catalog. First, you may conduct a subject search which requires the use of exact Library of Congress subject headings. These subject headings can be found in a set of red books behind the reference desk. The second option is a word search. Your search words are matched against title words and contents notes and subject headings.
A very common and recommended search strategy:
- Perform a word search.
- Select the relevant items.
- Examine the actual subject headings assigned to the relevant items and search on those headings that look promising.
Other Library Catalogs
WorldCat: The OCLC Online Union Catalog. Over 41 million records of many types of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world. Updated daily.
RLIN : A combined listing of over 30 million books, serials, archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, and computer files, including most materials held by major research and academic libraries in North America.
If you locate items in WorldCat or RLIN that are not held by Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr or Haverford, you can obtain them through Interlibrary Loan . Please allow 1-2 weeks for material to arrive. For faster turn-around time, try PALCI . (Note - this only works for books - not journal articles.)
Periodical Indexes: Finding Journal Articles
A-Z Listing of all the databases Swarthmore subcribes to.
Art Index : Indexes over 260 journals, yearbooks, area museum bulletins covering archaeology, architecture, art history, city planing, and related fields. 1984 to the present.
Note: We have the print back-run
(1929-1983)of Art Index in the Reference Stacks at N1 .A12.
Bibliography of the History of Art: Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. 1973 to the present.
ARTbibliographies Modern : Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including photography.
Current Contents:
Covers all fields and indexes journal articles, editorials, letters
to the editor, and book reviews from over 6500 research publications.
Dissertations Abstracts Online: The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. 1861 to the present.
Expanded Academic ASAP (EAI) : Provides indexing, abstracts and some full-text articles from academic periodicals in subjects including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences.
PCI - Periodical Contents
Index:
Indexes the contents of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
from the first issue through 1990, with a few titles indexed to 1993. Includes
the complete tables of contents for journals in English, French, German,
Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. A list of journal titles is
available. 1770 to 1993.
Grove Dictionary of Art: Online version of the comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. Includes 41,000 articles and 10,000 color images.
JSTOR : Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Project Muse: Provides fulltext access to over 100 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and 10 other university presses including Duke University, MIT, the University of Wisconsin, and the Oxford University Press. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
International Index to Performing Arts Full Text : Indexes more than 200 international performing arts periodicals and performing as related articles and obituaries from The New York Times and The Washington Post. Includes the full text of 25 journals back to 1998.
Handbooks and Specialized Dictionaries
Grove Dictionary of Art: Online version of the comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. Includes 41,000 articles and 10,000 color images.
Dictionary of
Art
Ref N31 .D5
Encyclopedia of
World Art
Ref N31 .E53
Mayer Dictionary
of Art Terms and Techniques
Ref NA31 .H34
Who's Who in American
Art
Ref N6536 .W6
Who Was Who in
American Art
Ref N6512
.F26 1985
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker
Ref N40
.A53 1992
Iconography: Guides to Recurring Symbols and Images,Their Origin and Meaning
A dictionary of
pictorial subjects from classical literature : a guide to their identification
in works of art
Ref N7760 .P68 1983
Iconography of
Christian art
N7830 .S352
Sources for Locating Paintings and Reproductions
Index to reproductions
of European paintings; a guide to pictures in more than three hundred books
Ref ND45 .M6
Print index :
a guide to reproductions
Ref NE90 .P17 1983
Public Search Engines - the two best ones - from a librarian's point of view...
Citation Styles
For further assistance, please feel free to contact Anne Garrison , x8492.
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Last Revised: 09.23.01
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