ARH101: Approaches to Visual Representation,
Scenes of Sacrifice
Fall 2006 - Susan Kart
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Art & Architecture Library Subject Page
Provides links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).

Hillyer Art Library
Website provides information about art library collections and services. Includes a browsing guide to the collections.

Barker, Joe. Critical Evaluation of Resources. University of California Berkeley Library. Last updated September 14, 2006.
Available at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html

Art Reference N31.D5 1996 and Groveart.com, the online version
The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. Online version updated quarterly.
Includes thousands of articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day as wall as links to images and websites. The dictionary also includes excellent articles on individual artists and individual works of art and monuments. Articles related to topics addressed in this course include Aztec, Mesoamerica, Precolumbian, Crucifix, Mattias Grunewald, Rome, Buildings: Colosseum, Monument, Public. These provide useful overviews as well as extensive bibliographies of reference works, surveys, and specialist studies.

FINDING BOOKS & MUSEUM CATALOGS

Five College Library Catalog
The online catalog provides access to the combined library holdings of Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Useful subject headings for finding books and catalogs about topics addressed by this course are:

• Human Sacrifice | Animal Sacrifice | Sacrifice | Rites and Ceremonies
  Violence -- Religious aspects | Terrorism -- Religious aspects
  Body, Human -- Religious Aspects
• Crucifixion In Art | Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion -- Art | Crosses | Death in Art
• Aztecs
• Cannibalism
• Martyrs | Christian Martyrs | Muslim Martyrs | Martyrdom | Self-sacrifice | Pain | Torture
• Memorials | War Memorials | Holocaust Memorials
• [Name of work, memorial, monument, etc.], for example,
  Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico) | Colosseum (Rome, Italy)
  Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
  Grunewald, Matthias, 16th cent. Isenheim Altar
  World Trade Center Site (New York, N.Y.)

FINDING ARTICLES IN JOURNALS & OTHER PERIODICALS

Art Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the visual arts providing access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions published in over 400 art magazines, journals, and museum newsletters and bulletins published throughout the world. Updated monthly, abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.

Academic Search Premier
Covers over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences -- many in full text. 1965 to present.

WRITING YOUR PAPER

Art Reserve N7476 .B37 2003
Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
Earlier editions are available in the stacks at the same call number.

Art Reserve x kart how
Chastain, Emma. How to Write a Research Paper. New York: Spark Publishing, 2006.

N7476 .B37 1999
Sayre, Henry M. Writing About Art. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Art Reference LB2369 .W75 2003
Writing Papers: A Handbook for Students at Smith College: a publication of the Jacobsen Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning. 3rd rev. ed. Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 2003.

Citation Formats for Bibliographies & Footnotes

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. Last updated August 29, 2006.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, and other popular manuals for writing papers and preparing manuscripts. All include instructions and examples of footnote and bibliography formats.

Art Reference Z253 .U69 2003
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Copies are also available in the other Smith libraries.

SC Art Reference PN147 .G444 1998
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, the art librarian and instructor for your library session: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, 121 Hillyer Art Library, X2941.

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