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

Oxford Art Online

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 Main Topic

Public art

Medium

street art

Graffiti

Public sculpture

Site-specific art

Environment (Art)

Installations (Art)

 

Art & Society

s:art and ("public space*" or "public place*")

 

Politics in art

Art -- Political aspects

 

Social problems in art

Art -- social aspects

 

Arts and Society

 

Art and Society

 

Art and state -- United States

 

art and activis* (activis* searches for activism, activist, etc.)

 

Artists and Community

Artistic collaboration

 

Artists and community

 

Community arts projects -- United States.

 

Funding

art --commissioning

 

Art commissions -- United States

 

National Endowment of The Arts

 

Federal aid to the arts -- United States.

 

Search for Exhibition Catalogues:

"street art" and (catalog* or exhibition*)

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)

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

American Memory

New York Public Library Picture Collection

New York Public Library Web Gallery of Images

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks

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.

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  (1984 - present); Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Add Other perspectives/focuses:

5. Communication & Mass Media Complete  

6. America: History and Life

7. Sociological Abstracts  

8. Women's Studies

9. 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:

Hein, Hilder. What Is Public Art - Time, Place, and Meaning. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54:1 (Winder 1996) 1-7.
References: 15 Times Cited: 5

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 15 references that Professor Hein cited for her article and, in turn, 5 articles 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. 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. Here are some examples:

Review of a book

Simus, Jason. "Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67: 4 (2009): 433-435.

 

Recently Published Reviews (the College Art Association )

 

A Few Core Journals

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

 

Art & text

Bomb

Grey Room

Leonardo

October

Third text

Visual Communication

 

Journal of social history

Find an electronic-journal by title

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

 

Alt-PressWatch

 

Ethnic NewsWatch 1960 -

 

Boston News (Boston Globe and Local Newspapers)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

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

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

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.