Library Research Guide



Library Research Guide

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

AH 201 – Nineteenth Century Art -- Kevin Richards

Books

Academy Library Catalog of The Academy’s 16,000 volume collection of books, videos and artist files.

AccessPA Catalog for over 700 Academic and Special Libraries in the State of Pennsylvania. The Database contains approximately 16.8 million titles and 70.9 million items, many of which can be obtained via InterLibrary Loan.

TCLC Reciprocal borrowing is available from these 47 area college and university libraries. You must be a student in

good standing and have a letter of introduction. Libraries include Moore and the Art Institute as well as Villanova

and St. Joseph’s.

Worldcat Search the collections of over 10,000 local, national and international libraries.

Articles

Art Full-Text / Art Index This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications. Indexes over 500 art related journals from 1983 to the present and provides full-text coverage of nearly 200 journals from 1997 to the present. If off-campus, click here.

Jstor The Arts & Sciences III collection includes journals in languages and literature, as well as essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture. There are 150 titles in this collection. If off-campus, click here.

Academic Search Elite This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study—including bio-sciences, economics, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, and women’s studies. Academic Search Elite features: Full text (most in PDF format) for 2,027 scholarly publications (of these, 1,581 are peer-reviewed) More than 100 top scholarly academic journals in PDF back to 1985. Indexing and abstracts for 3,534 scholarly journals (of these, 2,778 are peer reviewed) with many dating back to 1985. If off-campus, click here.

user id is first initial and last name (jsmith), password is st and

the last four numbers of your soc. Sec. number (st1234)

Key journals /

*Available in print. / Dates indicate electronic availability.

*Art Bulletin (1919-2005 JSTOR / 1995-on Art Full-Text)

Art History (1985-2008 Academic Search Premier)

*Art Journal (1960-2005 JSTOR / 1995-on Art Full-Text)

Burlington Magazine (1903-2003 JSTOR)

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes

(1939-2005 JSTOR)

Oxford Art Journal (1978-1999 JSTOR / 2004-on Art Full-Text)

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth Century Visual Culture (2002- Online)

Encyclopedias/Dictionaries

ArtLex (Art Dictionary) Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944, Short, alphabetically arranged essays provide definitions including information about who, when, where, and what. Timeline and illustrations. REF N6490 .A75

Blackwell Companion to Art Theory Provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings. This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. REF N7475 .C662 2002

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics With 600 original articles by distinguished scholars from many fields and countries,

this is a comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts: from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture. In-depth surveys of Western aesthetics and broad coverage of non-Western traditions and theories of art. Includes cross references, bibliographies,

and an index. REF BH 56 .E55

Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914 A one-volume work covering all the major artistic developments in the USA from the Colonial period until 1914. 835 entries, with 500 illustrations. REF N6507 .E53 2000

Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography Compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Includes 119 signed, alphabetically arranged essays on actions (harvesting, kiss/kissing), situations (upside down, widowhood), and concepts (whiteness, calumny). Entries were written by 42 prominent contributors, most of whom are faculty in art history, classics, archaeology, or literature at universities in the U.S.

REF N7565 .E53 1998x

Grove Dictionary of Art Essays on twentieth-century art movements and artists. Bibliographies follow articles. Provides access to The Bridgeman Art Gallery, a database of art images and links to external images on the Web. REF N31 .D5 1996 (Also available online via the Free Library of Philadelphia)

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art Terms

REF N33 .C575 2001

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists

REF N33 .C59 2003

Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

REF N6505 .M59 2007

Words of Art, Glossary of theory & criticism for the visual arts.

Biographical Sources

AskArt Online database containing over 155,000 artists. Biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with International artists' auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. On campus, users have complete access to information about the artists’ biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads pre-1998, and images.

Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America since 1850, Biographical summaries include impact of personal lives on artistic lives, exhibitions and awards, locations of examples of works, and references. Includes some American artists not yet in other sources. REF N43 .D85

Dictionary of American Sculptors 18th Century to

the Present REF NB50 .D53

Dictionary of Artists Models Models The first work on its subject. Each entry contains an interpretive essay, biographical information, a selection of the model's works, and a bibliography. Extensive cross-referencing allows readers to find models who have pseudonyms or alternative names, and an index to artists helps connect them with their models.

REF N7574 .D53 2001

Dictionary of Victorian Painters REF ND496 .W66

Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900

REF N43 .P47

Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era,

Entries for more than 12,700 painters, sculptors, graphic artists, etc. in Latin America and the Caribbean region active during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entries include the artists’ years, countries, bibliographies, brief biographical information, stylistic notes, a record of each artist’s exhibitions, and a list of collections where his or her work can be seen.

REF N6502.4 S45 2003

Nineteenth Century Painters and Painting: A Dictionary

REF ND190 .N67

St. James Guide to Black Artists, Biographical and career information, as well as brief critical essays, on nearly 400 of the most prominent black artists. Each entry includes selected exhibition listings, collections, publications, comments by the artist (when available), and a signed, critical essay by an authority in the field REF N40 .S78 1997

Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975

REF N6536 .W49 1999

Museums

Corcoran Gallery of Art Dahesh Museum

High Museum of Art Joslyn Art Museum

Walters Art Museum

Websites

Art History Resources on the Web: 19th Century Art

Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College.

19th Century European (& British) Art on the Web

Colorado State University

Voice of the Shuttle: Art (19th Century Europe and United States) Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.

World Wide Arts Resources Gateway and search engine to arts information and culture on the Web.

On Reserve

Art in Theory 1850-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Indispensable introduction to the history of the art of the period. Collects two hundred and sixty texts by artists, critics, philosophers and literary figures. Each section is prefaced by an essay that situates the ideas of the period in their historical context, while relating theoretical concerns and debates to developments in the practice of art. Each text is briefly introduced by an outline giving the circumstances of its original appearance and indicating its relevance to the development of modern artistic theory. Extensive bibliography on pages 1067-1080.

N6450 .A779 1998

Writing the Paper

Writing

Writing the Art History Paper –

An online guide from Dartmouth College

Art History Writing Guide –

An online guide from Wesleyan College

Evaluation

Evaluating Web Resources

Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

Turabian and Chicago Styles Citations

Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

MLA Formatting and Style Guide

MLA Style Citations (Modern Language Association)

Plagiarism



CCA Libraries Guide to Plagiarism Detection and Prevention

Copyright and Fair Use Information

Guide from Stanford University

Copyright Crash Course

Call Numbers to browse

Visual Arts—History—19th Century: N6450-6465

Visual Arts—History—U.S.--19th Century: N6510

Visual Arts—History—Great Britain--19th Century: N6767

Visual Arts—History—France--19th Century: N6847

Painting—History—19th Century: ND190

Painting—History—Great Britain--19th Century: ND467

Painting—History—France--19th Century: ND547

M – Individual Artist’s Monographs

N – Visual Arts

NA – Architecture

NB – Sculpture

NC – Drawing, Design, Illustration

ND – Painting

NE – Print Media

NK – Decorative Arts

TR – Photography

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