Check out the Course Reserves.

120 Thematic Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art
(with images and bibliographies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (1996-current)

Dictionary of Art Historians

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Includes biographical, critical essays and bibliographies on the 20th century American and European cultural theorists.

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)

Focus on the art historians, art critics, and authors in your course readings:

Singerman, Howard.

Holly, Michael Ann.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar

Foster, Hal.

Filipovic Elena

 

*You need to use WorldCat beyond Tufts libraries for theoretical discussions in this semester.

 

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

Art, African -- Catalogs.

Art, African -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition and Museum Catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, which 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.

 

Sampe searches

Installations (Art) -- Exhibitions.

Art and postmodernism and Exhibitions

 

1. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: a Sourcebook of Artists' Writings.

2. Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art.

3. Current artists are likely to be viewed and heard on the Web. Abramovic's videos through learned societies and organizations such as MOMA on the internet is a good example.

V. 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)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Appendix I. 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)

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.

 

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

 

 

4. Art Full Text

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

B. Current Scholarship

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

A Review Article:

Smith, Terry. "The State of Art History: Contemporary Art." Art Bulletin (U.S.A.) 92.4 (2010): 366 - 383.

A Review of books

Cazeaux, Clive. "Inherently Interdisciplinary: Four Perspectives on Practice-based Research." Journal of Visual Art Practice 7: 2 (2009), 107-132.

A few relevant journals

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

 

Journal of Visual Art Practice

International Journal of Art & Design Education

Bomb

Leonardo

October

C. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

 

For example:

Hockey, John. "Practice-based Research Degree Students in Art and Design: Identity and Adaptation." International Journal of Art & Design Education 22: 1 (2003), 82-91.
References: 32 Times Cited: 2

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 32 references that Hockey cited for his article and, in turn, 2 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

D. 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.

E. 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.

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual