Check out the Course Reserves.

The Arts of Armenia

This site contains images, descriptions, and bibliography for many Armenian manuscripts and monuments.

Codex Etchmiadzin

a codex Gospel of supreme importance in the history, art, and culture of Armenia.

Oxford Art Online

(for the essay on Armenia by Professor Lucy Der Manuelian, et al.; bibliography updated 26 May 2010.)

ARTstor

(Images from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.)

Artifact

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

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 Broader Context:

Art, Armenia.

Architecture Armenia

Narrower Focuses:

Christian art and symbolism -- Armenia

Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts -- Armenia

Specific Topics:

armenia* and (architect* or art) and influenc*

Tip: influenc* searches for influence, influenced, etc.

 

Books with Images:

monuments and pictorial works

medieval and "pictorial works"

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

Art, Armenian -- 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,

*and more.

Following is an example from Tisch library:

Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art / Vrej Nersessian. Oversize: N7973.6.A7 .N47 2001b
Googlebooks limited preview

A Few Titles at Tisch

Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation / Christina Maranci. Oversize: NA1474 .M43 2000

The Armenians: Art, Culture and Religion / Nira and Michael Stone. DS175 .S76 2007

The Chester Beatty library: a Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts with an introd. on the History of Armenian Art / by Sirarpie Der Nersessian. Oversize: ND3239.A7 B4

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art N7560 .H34 2008

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

A. Use Subject Databases for 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. Period Studies

International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 -1700).

4.

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

 

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

B. A Few Core Journals

Dumbarton Oaks Papers

Early Medieval Europe

Essays in Medieval Studies

Gesta

Medieval Encounters

Speculum

Studies in Iconography. (Tisch oversize: NX1 .S84)

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

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.

Writing the Art History Paper

A Survival Guide for Art History Students by Professor Christina Maranci (Tisch Library, Oversize: N385 .M37 2005)

“A good critique is really more about your own confidence as a reader than about possession of specific knowledge.”

A systematic approach in your reading helps you consider the article critically:

1. What is the thesis?

2. What are the primary and secondary sources used?

3. How does the author connect these sources?

4. Does the author agree or disagree with the secondary sources?

5. What is the main methodology in the author’s analysis and argument? (formalism or feminism in art history, for example.)

6. Is the author clear in his/her logic and presentation?

7. Are the conclusions convincing?

Citing Sources:

Chicago Style Manual (for citing sources)

RefWorks