Check out the Course Reserves.

120 Thematic Essays on Modern/Contemporary Art
(Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.)

Oxford Art Online

The Contemporary Art Themes and Movements Series

The Contemporary Artists Series

The Contemporary Artists and Their Critics Series

A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (online)

Cubism and Culture / Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten.

The Cubist Painters / Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated, with commentary by Peter Read. Apollinaire and cubism / Peter Read.

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism / Pepe Karmel.

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)

Broader Contexts:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Cubism

Abstract Expressionism

Post-impressionism (Art)

 

Narrower Focuses:

Expressionism (Art) -- Germany.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia.

Avant-Garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union.

 

The Artists:

Picasso, pablo

Pollock, Jackson

Beckmann, Max

Kandinsky, Wassily

the Bauhaus

Mondrian, Piet

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig

Rothko Mark

 

Types of Documents:

Cubism -- Exhibitions.

Avant-Garde (Aesthetics) -- Exhibitions.

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.

 

Here is an example:

Cubist Picasso / [curator, Anne Baldassari ; texts by Anne Baldassari ... [et al.].
N6853.P5 A4 2007

 

Primary Sources (with the keyword "sources"):

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

Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art

Documents of 20th Century Art

A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1874-1904; Sources and Documents.

German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism

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.

3. Academic OneFile

(All subjects, including Photography; a convenient quick start; Here are some sample findings.)

4. ARTbibliographies Modern (most comprehensive; late 1960's - present)

More Art & Art History databases:

International Bibliography of Art (1998 - present)

Art Full Text and Retrospective (1929 - present; “select” Full Text 1997- present)

 

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

B. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

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

For example:

Rosenthal, Maurice J. "Relationships Between Form and Feeling in the Art of Picasso" American Imago  8: 4 (1951), 371-391.
References: 22 Times Cited: 3

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 22 references that Rosenthalcited for his article and, in turn, 3 articles (so far) 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.

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

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

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

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

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.

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.

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Image Quest (two million plus rights-cleared images)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks