Selected Resources for Art : Modern Art
Fall Semester 2001
Books | Web Sites | Periodicals
BOOKS
LC subject headings |
Library Catalogs |
Selected Bibliography |
Top
Library of Congress Subject Headings.
20th ed., 4 vols., 1997.
Kept on the long table by the main bank of EZRA/Web terminals.
Subject headings will be similar to, but may be different from
those used in periodical indexes.
- Look for general art subject headings, e.g.:
- Art, Modern
- Modernism (Art)
- Sculpture, Modern
- Look for artistic movements by subject
- Cubism
- Impressionism
- many of these are also listed as related subjects of "Modernism (Art)
- Look also for schools of art:
- Bauhaus
- Or look for an individual artist as a subject, last name first
- Mondrian, Piet
Locating Books in Library Catalogs
WEB SITES
Grove Dictionary of Art
http://www.groveart.com/
Full text of the 20+ volume Groves Dictionary of Art. Includes a browseable index to 45,000 articles and 124,000 images.
Digital Media Center
http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/art/Login
Searchable images of over 40,000 art images.
World Wide Art Resources
http://wwar.com/
Guide to art resources on the web.
PERIODICALS
- Art Abstracts(1984-present): http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/arti
- Key international English-language arts publications. Includes
periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award
notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and
more. (Abstracts for articles starting in March 1994).
- Bibliography of the History of Art(1973-): http://www.ohiolink.edu/cgi-bin/rlg.pl?bibart
- Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the
present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts
art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations,
exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500
periodicals.
Locating Journals:
At Wittenberg:
- EZRA, the library catalog: Web EZRA | Telnet to Ezra
- See our online list of Journals the Library Has
- or browse our online list of Art Journals (print & electronic)
- Periodicals Holdings List (PHiL) (blue folders on index tables in Reference
, and also on tables on first floor)
At other Ohio academic libraries:
- OhioLINK Central Catalog (Note: you cannot get periodicals through OhioLINK)
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Compiled by Ken Irwin.