Art in Europe & America from the Renaissance to the Present  ART 223 Guide to Information Resources

Art Books: a Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists
    Print:  Reference N 40 .F47

Dictionary of Art. (Grove's Dictionary of Art)
    Print: Reference N 31 D5 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art.  Articles include bibliographies.
    Print:  Reference N 31 E4833

Browse the N's on the Reference shelves for other relevant reference sources.

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Library Catalog -- Our library's collection of books, videos, periodicals, etc...!

• 30 day checkout for most items
• Renew online

MOBIUS -- Missouri academic library consortium

• Request online, items arrive within 2-3 working days
• 21 day checkout, 2 renewals (if not needed elsewhere)
• When requesting, we are part of LANCE and remember to choose Truman State University as pickup location.

WorldCat -- Libraries around the country. Available through FirstSearch.

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For books check Library Catalog first, then MOBIUS. Only use ILL as a last resort.

Forms: available on the Interlibrary Loan Services site, through most FirstSearch & EBSCO databases, and at the Reference desk.

Do not wait until the last minute to request materials through ILL!

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Periodicals ~ JournalFinder

If you found this article reference in a bibliography, how could you find out if our library has it?

Search JournalFinder available on the Library's home page. JournalFinder will retrieve the catalog record to a journal if the library has it in print (so you can get the Call number) and will also link to full text options if they are available.

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General sources (all subjects)

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO).  1985+.  A multi-disciplinary database that indexes over 3000 periodicals, many scholarly journals and some popular magazines.  Includes full text of about 2000 of the periodicals.  You can limit your search to find only scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Be careful to only use scholarly journals.

ArticleFirst.
Database of scanned tables of contents from about 13,000 periodical titles since 1990.  Includes both popular and scholarly periodicals.

Dissertation Abstracts.
Index to dissertations from 1861.  The actual dissertations  may sometimes be obtained through interlibrary loan.

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Specialized Art Sources

Humanities Abstracts.  1984+
Citations from about 325 periodicals in archaeology and
classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology, language and literature.
Print: 1907-1996   Reference AI 3 S6 (Early volumes called International Index)

Art Bibliographies Modern.
Contains citations to art literature (books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs) on the subject of modern art and design.  Print:  Reference NX 456 A78

RILA:  International Repertory of the Literature of Art.  1978-1989.
Print:  General Collection (non-circulating) N  7510  R54

Arts & Humanities Search.  1980+
International multidisciplinary database indexing1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

ABC-CLIO History Databases

America: History & Life.    1964+    Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from  prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts.  1954+     Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present  (excluding the United States and Canada)

Speeches, letters, journals, diaries, etc. of an individual may be found by looking for the name of that person as an author.  Examples of author searches

    michelangelo          retrieves  Complete poems and selected letters of Michelangelo
    gogh vincent van    retrieves    Vincent Van Gogh Art Life and Letters

*Caution: Records for exhibition catalogs will use the artist as the author and are not writings of the artist.

The word sources or documents or documentary usually occur on records for anthologies or collections of primary source material.  Use those words in a keyword search to bring up collections of documents.

      art and history and (sources or document*)

       art, renaissance and s:sources     The s:  limits the term sources to the subject field.

        The library also has this series Sources And Documents In The History Of Art

Use the Library catalog to find these in our library.  Use MOBIUS or WorldCat  to see what other volumes might exist that you could borrow. 

EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS. A microfilm collection of books published in England or in the English language between 1475 and 1700.  There are some very interesting old volumes in this collection.  To search in this collection specifically, add early English books to your keyword search in our catalog.

         early english books and (color or colors)

EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS.  A microfiche collection of books published in the U.S. in the 17th and 18th centuries. To search this collection specifically, add early american imprints to your keyword search.
         painting and (early american imprints)

DOCUMENTS OF 20th CENTURY ART. Collection of volumes giving primary sources relating to 20th century art.  In the LibraryCatalog, a search on this title will find a list of the books in the series.  Some of the authors included are: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Arp, Umbro Apollonio, Daniel Kahnweiler, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Pablo Picasso.

LIVES OF THE ARTISTS. Written by Vasari (1511-1574)
Ref N 6922 V2213 1991

ARTISTS ON ART FROM THE XIV TO THE XX CENTURY
Ref N 7452 G64 1958

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARTISTS ON ART: AN INDEX TO WRITINGS, STATEMENTS AND
INTERVIEWS BY ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, AND DESIGNERS.
Reference NX 456 R59 1996

Smithsonian Archive of American Art---Online Collections
A digitized collection of papers of artists and other archival material from the Archives of American Art including  letters, postcards, sketches, exhibition records, diaries, and other unique documents.

Smithsonian Archive of American Art---Oral History Collections:
Online collection of transcripts of interviews with artist, collectors, gallery directors, and art historians.

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Art History Resources on the Web Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century

Getty Research Library  Search the collections of the Getty Research Library using IRIS, the on-line catalog, and connect to other reference and research resources.

Metropolitan Museum of Art  Besides information on their collections you will find two useful sections, Explore & Learn and Timeline of Art History.

National Gallery of Art  See if there is a in-depth study provided for your artist. Under The Collection link you will find a link entitled In-depth studies focus on artists and works of arts.
 

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