ARH130: Introduction to Art History,
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Fall 2006 - Susan Kart
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

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 lists of new books and a browsing guide to the collections.

Barker, Joe. Critical Evaluation of Resources. University of California Berkeley Library. Last updated September 14, 2006. Retrieved on October 30, 2006.
Available at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html

GETTING STARTED: REFERENCE TOOLS

Art Reference N31.D5 1996 and Groveart.com, the online version
The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
Excellent survey articles on the art and architecture of specific countries, regions, cities, cultures including information about major museum and private collections (for example, Native North American Art, Inca, Maya, Aboriginal Australia, Pacific Islands, Hawaii, Africa. Also includes articles about individual artists giving biographical, critical, and contextual information. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources. Groveart.com entries usually include links to good illustrations and other authoritative resources available on the web.

FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONGRAPHS

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.
Some useful subject headings for finding publications on AOA art and artists are:

• Tourism and art | Heritage tourism
• Art, Primitive -- Africa | North America | America | Oceania

Artists

• [artist's name], e.g., Fusco, Coco | Twins Seven Seven

Geography & Culture

• Art, African | Art -- [country name], e.g., Art -- Nigeria
  Art, Benin | Sculpture -- Benin | Art, Fang -- Equatorial Guinea
• Art -- Oceania | Art, Pacific Island | Art, Australian aboriginal
  Art -- Papua New Guinea -- Sepik River Valley | Art -- Hawaii | Art, Hawaiian
• Indian art -- North America | Indian art -- South America
  Indian art -- Central America | Indian art -- [country name]
  [country or culture name] -- Antiquities, e.g. Peru -- Antiquities | Maya -- Antiquities

Art Forms & Media

• [art form, medium, etc.] -- Africa | African -- [country]
  e.g., Sculpture -- African -- Nigeria | Masks -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• [art form, medium, etc.] -- [country or place name]
  e.g., Photography -- Mexico | Needlework -- Hawaii
• [culture name] [art form, medium, etc.],
  e.g., Inca textile fabrics | Maya painting | Navajo Indians -- Textiles

FINDING ARTICLES IN JOURNALS & OTHER PERIODICALS

Specific Topics: Indexes

Art Abstracts
Covers all aspects of the visual arts, providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. Provides access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, is updated monthly and abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.

Browsing: Selective List of Periodicals

African Arts (Art Periodical DT1 .A42; 1967-2000 online)
American Indian Art Magazine (Art Periodical E98.A7 A43)
Art and Australia (Art Periodical N1 .A354)
Art Journal (Periodical N81 .A887; 1960-2002 online)
Artes de Mexico (Art Periodical N7 .A768)
Arts d'Afrique noire (Art Periodical NX588.75 .A77)
Luna Cornea (Art Periodical TR28 .L86)
Museum Anthropology (Art Periodical GN35 .C68)
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Art Periodical NX587 .N54)
Res (Art Periodical N5310.7 .R47)
Third Text (Art Periodical NX593.3.A1 T45; current issues online)

WRITING YOUR PAPER

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 and Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. October 20, 2006.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, APA, 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.
An excellent source of information on how to cite electronic as well as print sources.

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.

Art Reference PN171.D37 L5 1996
Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic Styles: A Handbook for Citing Electronic Information. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 1996.
Includes citation formats for full-text databases (individual works, books, monographs or full-length works, periodicals), bibliographic databases, electronic conferences (Interest Groups) or bulletin board services (BBS), electronic mail (personal), computer programs.

CONTACTING THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

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

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