Check out the Course Reserves.

45 Thematic Essays on Chinese Art
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.)

Oxford Art Online

Art in China / Craig Clunas.

The Arts of China / William Watson.
[v. 1.] To AD 900 -- [v. 2.] 900-1620 -- [v. 3] After 1620.

The Arts of China / Michael Sullivan.

Chinese Art in Detail / Carol Michaelson & Jane Portal.

Style in the Arts of China / William Watson.

Modern Chinese Artists: a Biographical Dictionary / Michael Sullivan.

Avatars and Antiheroes: a Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. / Claudia Albertini.

Contemporary Chinese art: Primary Documents. / edited by Wu Hung ; with the assistance of Peggy Wang.

Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles.

Chinese Art: One Hundred Plates in Colour Reproducing Pottery & Porcelain of All Periods, Jades, Lacquer, Paintings, Bronzes, Furniture, etc., etc., Introduced by an Outline Sketch of Chinese Art. / by R. L. Hobson.

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)

A. Subject Browse by Period

Art, Chinese -- To 221 B.C.
Art, Chinese Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
Art Chinese Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618
Art, Chinese -- Tang-Five Dynasties, 618-960.
Art, Chinese -- Song-Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368.
Art, Chinese Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Art, Chinese -- 20th Century.
Art, Chinese -- 21st Century.

B. by Medium, Style, etc..:

Architecture, Chinese.

Sepulchral monuments -- China

Palaces -- China

sculpture Chinese

 

Paintings -- China

Landscape painting, Chinese

ink painting, Chinese

Calligraphy, Chinese

Porcelain, Chinese

Pottery, Chinese

Wood-engraving, Chinese

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- China

Buddhist Art -- China.

 

C. Focus on an Artist:

"ai weiwei"

 

"liu xiaodong" and art

D. on a specific Topic:

the animal motif, particularly dragon, in Chinese art"

 

(animal* or dragon*) and (chinese or china) and su:art

E. Find Exhibition/Museum Catalogues

Art, Chinese -- 20th Century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Chinese -- 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;

*interviews with artists;

*and more.

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles and to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your field.

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; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

4. ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)

5. Art Full Text    

6. Bibliography of Asian Studies

7. 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 the article in your syllabus:

Fong, Wen C. "Why Chinese Painting Is History." Art Bulletin 85: 2 (2003) 258-280.
References: 17 Times Cited: 6

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 17 references that Professor Fong cited for his article and, in turn, 6 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.

C. Find "Literature Review"

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.

Examples of review of Books:

Ferrari, Rossella. "Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema (review). China Review International 16: 4 (2009) 544-549.

 

Wenzel, Christian Helmut. "The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics (review). Philosophy East and West 59: 2 (2009) 240-243.

 

Wang, ShiPu. "The Impossible Nude: Chinese Art and Western Aesthetics (review). China Review International 15: 2 (2008) 234-243.

 

Recently Published Reviews

 

 

A Few Core Journals:

Architectural History

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

The Burlington Magazine

Oxford Art Journal

 

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

The China Quarterly

China Review International

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modern China

Find an electronic-journal by title

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.