Check out the Course Reserves.

65 Essays on European Art in the Twentieth Century (with images and bibliographies).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Arte Povera
Robert Lumley
Oversize: N6494.P6 P67 2005

 

Arte Povera
Giovanni Lista.
Oversize: N6918.5.A73 L57 2006

 

Pop
edited by Mark Francis; survey by Hal Foster.
Oversize: N6494.P6 P67 2005

 

Italian Cultural Studies: an Introduction
edited by David Forgacs and Robert Lumley.
Oversize: DG450 .I795 1996

 

Culture and Customs of Italy.
DG451 .K54 2005

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

The Artists:

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Emilio Vedova

Alberto Burri

Piero Manzoni

Alighiero Boetti

Luciano Fabro

Jannis Kounellis

Giuseppe Penone

 

in the Art Historical Contexts:

Arte povera.

Installations Art Italy

Conceptual Art Italy

 

the Broader Contexts:

Art, Italian

Art, Italian -- 20th century

 

Types of Documents (see below their special research value):

Art, Italian -- Exhibitions.

Art, Italian -- Catalogs.

These exhibition and museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, which may include:

*Fundamental data on each work of art;

*Official images of the artworks;

*Curatorial statements/essays;

*essays by art critics/historians;

*list of scholarly publications on the art,

*sometimes, artists’ interviews,

*and more.

 

Following are examples from the Library collections:

Donna: Avanguardia Femminista Negli Anni '70: Dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna.
a cura di Gabriele Schor.
Oversize: N72.F45 D66 2010

 

Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008
edited by Francesco Bonami ; translation, Jeremy Scott.
Oversize: N6918 .I836 2008

 

 

Path of Discovery in the Catalog

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Lumley, Robert, 1951-
Title	Arte Povera
Publisher	London: Tate Pub.; New York: Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, c2004.
Subject	Arte povera
	Modernism (Art) -- Italy.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

 

4. ARTbiliographies Modern
International Bibliography of Art
Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

 

5. Art Full Text (1984 - present)

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Build up your search

Start with names or titles as keywords in your search:

People (art historians, art critics, authors from your syllabus and bibliographies in the assigned readings).

Objects/works of Art, e.g. "Venus of the Rags". titles of articles and books you have read (to see how others have responded to them).

C. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

D. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

IV. Popular Press

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

British Humanities Index (1962- )

IV. Images

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)
(images for this course by your professor)

Image Quest (more than two million rights-cleared images)

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual