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 lists a browsing guide to the collections.

FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONGRAPHS

Publications By & About Artists

Art Reference Z5938.F73 1997
Freitag, Wolfgang M. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists. 2nd ed. New York: Garland, 1997.
Bibliography of 15,000 treatises, dissertations, biographies, catalogues raisonnés, bibliographies, and artists' writings, and exhibition and sales catalogs on approximately 2,100 artists from all time periods. Very good coverage for modern artists.

Art Reference NX456 .R59 1996
Robertson, Jack. Twentieth-century Artists on Art: An Index to Writings, Statements, and Interviews by Artists, Architects, and Designers. 2nd enl. ed. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
Index to writings by approximately 15,000 20th-century artists published in 930 publications, primarily books and exhibition catalogs, issued before 1996.

Library Holdings

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 Library of Congress subject headings for material on early 20th-century European art and architecture are:
[artist's/architect's name]
[name of movement], e.g., Cubism | Expressionism (Art) | Neoplasticism | Surrealism
Dadaism | Constructivism(Art) | Suprematism in art | De Stijl (Art movement)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, Modern -- 20th Century | Modernism (Art)
Painting, Modern -- 20th century | Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century | Modern movement (Architecture)

FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES & OTHER ANALYTICS

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts, providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. They provide access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984. Art Abstracts is updated monthly and abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.

ARTbibliographies Modern
ARTbibliographies Modern provides access to information about late 19th- and 20-century fine arts, decorative arts, design, and photography in periodicals (500 regularly indexed, 2000 selectively indexed), dissertations, exhibition catalogues, and books published throughout the world. The electronic version covers 1974 to the present and is updated bi-monthly. Abstracts are provided for all records.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Covering architecture and related fields such as planning, landscape architecture, and interior design Avery Index provides regular access to approximately 1,000 periodicals from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. Updated daily.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
BHA provides access to literature on the post-classical western visual arts published in over 3,000 periodicals and in books, exhibition catalogues, doctoral dissertations, Festschriften and other collected essays, selected art dealers' catalogues, and conference publications.

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 N7476 .S29 1999
Sayre, Henry M. Writing About Art. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1999.

Art and Neilson Reference LB2369 .W75 2003
Writing Papers: A Handbook for Students at Smith College. 3rd rev. ed. Northampton, Mass.: Smith College, 2003.

Citing Sources for Bibliographies & Footnotes

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. November 12, 2004.
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 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.

Art Reference PN171.F56 W35 1998
Walker, Janice R., and Taylor, Todd. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
"Presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources." An abbreviated guide, Basic CGOS, is available online.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, the art librarian: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, Hillyer Art Library, Room 121, X2941.

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