ARH372: Cézanne and the History of Modernism
Spring 2008 - André Dombrowski
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Art & Architecture, French, & History Library Subject Pages
Provide links to resources covering a wide variety of topics in these disciplines (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.

Reference Sources

Art Reference N31.D5 1996 and Groveart.com, the online version
The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
Includes 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present -- on major art movements (Impressionism, Post-Impressionism), media and materials (Watercolour), themes and subjects, places (Paris), and individual artists, dealers, collectors (Paul Cézanne, Ambroise Vollard, Dr. Paul Gachet). The more than 20,000 artist entries include biographical, critical, and contextual information. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources (see the extensive Cézanne bibliography) and usually includes links to illustrations available on the Internet.

FINDING BOOKS, CATALOGS & OTHER MONOGRAPHS

Useful subject headings (subject begins with) for finding books and catalogs for your ARH372 research project are:

• Painting, French -- 19th century | Painting, Modern -- 19th century
  Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- France
• [artist/other personal name], e.g., Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906 | Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903
  Note sub-headings for artists: Catalogues raisonnés | Criticism and interpretation | Exhibitions
  Correspondence | Interviews | Homes and haunts | Themes, motives
  Note sub-headings for literary works: drama | fiction
• [title of work of art/monument], e.g., Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906. Still-life with blue pot
• [subject matter/theme], e.g. Still-life painting, French -- 19th century
  Self-portraits | Landscape in art
• [cultural context], e.g., France -- History -- 1789-1900
  Art -- Political aspects -- France -- Paris | Art and state -- France -- Paris
  Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
  Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
  Provence (France) -- Civilization

Five College Library Catalog

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.

Other Library Holdings

WorldCat
WorldCat is universal in subject scope and includes records for items in all formats held in thousands of libraries throughout the United States and Europe. It is an excellent source for developing a bibliography and verifying citations. To request items found in Worldcat through Smith's Interlibrary Loan Service, plan ahead and allow at least two weeks for delivery.

Catalog commun de l'INHA [Institut national d'histoire de l'art]
Online catalog of the holdings of three major French art libraries which form the new INHA library.

Catalogue collectif des bibliothèques des musées nationaux
Online catalog of the holdings 25 French museum libraries including the Musee d'Orsay.

Union Catalog of France (Catalogue Collectif de France/CCFr)
"One of the most powerful online bibliographic and document research tools in France. Its main purpose is to provide a single search interface for the three major French catalogs:

• Catalog of Digitized Municipal Library Collections (Catalogue des Fonds des Bibliothèques Municipales Rétroconvertis/BMR)
• BN-Opale Plus
• University Documentation Catalog (Catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation/Sudoc).
  The CCFr makes it possible to locate more than 15 million documents available in the French library system... You can use the CCFr to request the loan of primary documents and document substitutes (photocopies, photographs, digital copies, etc.). You can also reserve materials for viewing in a library, thanks to an interlibrary loan (ILL) Internet tool available free of charge to all interested libraries."

FINDING ARTICLES IN JOURNALS & OTHER SOURCES

Visual Arts

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover 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. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984.

ARTbibliographies Modern
Provides access to information about late 19th- through 21st-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. Covers 1974 to the present. Abstracts are provided for all records.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
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 from 1973 to the present.

Other Disciplines

Historical Abstracts
Index to articles in periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other publications on world history (excluding North America) from 1450 to the present.

JSTOR
Complete digital backfiles (excepting the most current 2 to 5 years) of more than 400 scholarly journals. Includes a flexible search engine and also allows browsing through individual issues of journals. Excellent source for researching cross-disciplinary topics.

MLA Bibliography
Key database for scholarship on literature and language from 1926 to the present. Includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.

CITATION FORMATS FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIES & NOTES

helps researchers gather, manage, store, and generate citations and bibliographies.

• Set up a personal Refworks account
• Technical assistance from ITS on getting started and using the program
• Help for using RefWorks with library databases

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. January 25, 2008.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, and other popular manuals for writing papers, preparing manuscripts, and formatting footnote and bibliography citations.

Art Reference Z253 .U69 2003 Online Edition
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Completely searchable online version of this important style manual, providing quick answers to style, editing, and citation format questions (for print and electronic sources).

Neilson Reference Desk PN171 .F56 W35 2006
Walker, Janice R., and Todd Taylor. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
"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."

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, Head of the Hillyer Art Library:
bpolowy@email.smith.edu, Hillyer Hall 121, X2941.

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