LIS413: Literature of the Humanities, Visual Arts
Class Presentation Sources & Examples
Spring 2008 - James Kelly

Guest lecturer: Barbara Polowy, Head of the Hillyer Art Library
Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 413-585-2941

SMITH COLLEGE LIBRARIES LINKS

• Smith College Libraries
  http://www.smith.edu/libraries/
• Hillyer Art Library
  http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/hillyer/
• Art & Architecture Subject Page
  http://www.smith.edu/libraries/research/subject/artarchitecture.htm

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
  http://www.arlisna.org/
• ARLIS/NA New England Chapter
  http://www.arlisne.org/
• Art Libraries Society/UK and Ireland
  http://www.arlis.org.uk/
• Visual Resources Association
  http://vraweb.org/

KEY REFERENCE SOURCES

Smith Art Reference N85.J64 1990
Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information: Research Methods and Resources. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1990.

Smith Art Reference Z5931 .A67 / MHC N380 .A67 1980 Folio
Arntzen, Etta and Robert Rainwater. Guide to the Literature of Art History. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980.

Smith Art Reference Z5931 .A67 2005 / MHC Reference N380 .A67 2005
Marmor, Max, and Alex Ross. Guide to the Literature of Art History 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005.

PERIODICAL INDEXES

LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic provides full text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Excellent source for art exhibition reviews.

Art Abstracts
Licensed online database. Covers all aspects of the visual arts, indexing articles, reviews, and images in over 300 periodicals published throughout the world from 1984 to the present.

MONOGRAPHIC SOURCES

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.

• Artists
  [artist's name] as a subject
  [artist's name] as an author
• Exhibition documentation
  subject -- Exhibitions Yarde example
• Art Collection Documentation
  [museum name] -- Catalogs
  [collector's name] --Art Collections

Smith College Museum of Art. "Collections." Available: http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/collections/
Illustrated highlights of the collection and a link to the more comprehensive online collection catalog, Five College Museum/Historic Deerfield Database which also includes some illustrations.

BIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

General Sources

Neilson Reference CT213 .A68 1999 and American National Biography, the online version
American National Biography. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Successor to the Dictionary of American Biography. Reliable scholarly biographies of major figures in American history.

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. The more than 20,000 artist entries include biographical, critical, and contextual information.

Index to Artistic Biography

Art Reference N40 .H38
Havlice, Patricia Pate. Index to Artistic Biography. 2 vols. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1973. Yarde example

Biographical Dictionaries & Directories

Art Reference N40 .A63 1992
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon: die bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten und Volker.Munchen: Saur, 1992- . [known as Thieme-Becker]

Art Referenece N40 .B4613 2006
Bénézit, Emmanuel. Dictionary of Artists. 14 vols. Paris: Grund, 2006.
First English language edition of Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs.

Main N6536 .W5 Folio
Who’s Who in American Art. New York: MacMillan Co., 1936/37-date. Published as part of American Art Annual from 1898-1934/35. Yarde example

Art Reference N6538.N5 C42
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason. Afro-American Artists: A Bio-bibliographical Directory. Boston: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973. Yarde example

Art Reference N40 .S78 1997
St. James Guide to Black Artists, edited by Thomas Riggs. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. Yarde example

INDEXES TO REPRODUCTIONS

Art Reference NE508 .B76 1999
Bryce, Betty Kelly. American Printmakers, 1946-1996: An Index to Reproductions and
Biocritical Information. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1999. Yarde example

NE539.5.A35 T47 1985
Through a Master Printer: Robert Blackburn and the Printmaking Workshop.
Columbia, S.C.: Columbia Museum of Art, 1985. Yarde entry

ART SALES

Christie's.
Website for this major auction house provides information about works of art in upcoming and previous sales including prices realized.

Online database at http://www.artprice.com (allows limited non-subscriber access)
Artprice.com.
Available in print format as ADEC/Art Price Annual International & Falk's Art Price Index. St. Romain au Mt. d'or, France: Ehrmann: ADEC/Art Price Annual S.A. 1988-date, annual.

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