Check out the Course Reserves.

Oxford Art Online

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (libraries worldwide)

B. Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

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.

C. Searches & Results

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

The Artists:

Orozco, José Clemente

Kahlo, Frida

Tamayo Rufino

 

Specific Issues:

women and art and mexic*

nation* and (art or arts) and mexic*
(national characteristics in Mexican Art, etc.)

Tip: nation* searches for nation, nationalism, etc..

 

Specific Medium:

Painting, Mexican (specific medium)

Prints, Mexican

Mural painting and decoration Mexican

 

in the Context of:

Hispanic American art (an ethinic group)

        Mexican American Art

        Mexican American artists. 

 

The Broader Context:

Art, Mexican (a country)

Art, Latin American -- 20th century. (the region)

Art, Colonial -- Latin America (time period)

 

Types of Documents:

Art, Mexican -- Catalogs.

Art, Mexican -- 20th Century -- Catalogs.

Art, Mexican -- Exhibitions..

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

 

These exhibition and museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, some of which serve as case studies for this course. These catalogues 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 Tisch library:

La Era de la Discrepancia: Arte y Cultura Visual en México, 1968-1997 / Con Textos de Olivier Debroise ... [et al.]; editado por Olivier Debroise; [traducción, Joëlle Rorive y Ricardo Vinós, James Oles] = The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1968-1997 / with essays by Olivier Debroise ... [et al.]; edited by Olivier Debroise; [translations, Joëlle Rorive y Ricardo Vinós, James Oles]. Oversize: NX514.A1 E73 2006

 

Juan O'Gorman 100 Años: Temples, Dibujos y Estudios Preparatorios.
Oversize: N6559.O36 A4 2005

 

 

Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries.
introduction by Octavio Paz; [translations by Edith Grossman ... et al.]
N6550 .M48 1990

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Image Quest (rights-cleared images)

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks

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. Expand Your Search Across these subjects or separately:

ARTBibliographies Modern, International Bibliography of Art, Latin American Studies

 

5. HAPI (Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Both English and Spanish language materials.)  

6. 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:

Ramirez, Mari Carmen. "Beyond the Fantastic, Framing Identity in United -States Exhibitions of Latin-American Art." Art Journal (U.S.A.) 51: 4 (1992), 60-68.
References: 22 Times Cited: 2

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 22 references that Mari Carmen Ramírez cited for her article and, in turn, 2 articles (so far) that cited hers. 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. Fine "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.

An example of review of Books:

Fojas, Camilla. "Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History and Art, and: From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture by Myra Mendible (review) ." NWSA Journal   21: 3 (2009), 197-201.

 

Recently Published Reviews (the College Art Association )

 

A Few Core Journals:

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

 

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Hispanic American Historical Review

 

Find an electronic-journal by title

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

 

Boston News (Boston Globe and Local Newspapers)

Alt-press and Ethnic News

Alt-PressWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 -

Historical

Hispanic American Newspapers  (1808  1980)

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.