American Art History

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American Art History

• Jason Dupree, Head of Public Services
• 774-3031
• jason.dupree_at_swosu.edu
• For IM and Facebook
• http//faculty.swosu.edu/jason.dupree/contact.html

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Act I
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Locating an American Artist

• Reference Collection (700-779)
• Atlas of World Art
• Contemporary Women Artists
• Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape
  Architecture
• Dictionary of Art
• Dictionary of Symbols in Western Art
• Encyclopedia of Artists
• Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
• Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
• Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
• Photography Encyclopedia

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Locating an American Artist

• OxfordArtOnline (online encyclopedia)
• Timeline of Art History
• www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
• Artcyclopedia Fine Art Search Engine
• http//www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html

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Act II
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Types of Searching Keyword vs. Subject

• Keyword
• Flexible
• Less accurate
• Affected by Boolean Operators, Truncation Symbols
  and punctuation

• Subject
• Rigid
• Very Precise
• Predetermined vocabulary established by the
  Library of Congress, National Library of
  Medicine, and other groups

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Keywords vs. Subjects

• Native American
• American art

• Indians of North America
• Art, American

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Subjects

• Predetermined terminology
• Library of Congress
• More difficult to use in searches
• Very precise

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Keywords

• Flexible terminology
• Easier to do searches
• Less accurate

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Boolean Operators

• AND
• painting and watercolor
• Cézanne and portrait and post-impressionism

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Boolean Operators

• OR
• watercolor or watercolour
• portrait or portraiture
• AND OR together
• watercolor or watercolour and painting
• portrait or portraiture and Cézanne and
  post-impressionism

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Boolean Operators

• NOT
• painting not house
• portraiture not photography
• AND, OR NOT together
• acrylic and painting not house or household

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Boolean Operators

• Boolean Operators connect keywords only
• Must be placed between keywords
• AND
• Narrows your search
• OR
• Expands your search with synonymous terms
• NOT
• Excludes words from your search
• If used too much, it can work against you!

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Act III
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Looking for Books

• Librarys Catalog
• E-Books
• NetLibrary
• Ebrary
• WorldCat

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Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Bibliography Deadline is October 23rd!
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Looking for Articles

• Academic Search Complete
• Personal Folder (your personal research space)
• Search Alert
• Citation Generator
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Art Index (1929-2005) paper only
• Periodicals List
• Search by subject fine arts to browse our titles

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Off Campus Access
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Username/Password
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Act IV
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Online Resources

• Art History Resources on the Web
• http//witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
• ArtDaily.org
• http//www.artdaily.com/index.asp
• Artquotes.net
• http//www.artquotes.net
• Mark Hardens Artchive
• http//www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• http//library.moma.org

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Online Resources

• NYPL Digital Gallery
• http//digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.c
  fm
• Orazio Centaros Art Images on the Web
• http//www.ocaiw.com
• ArteLatina.com
• http//www.artelatina.com/
• CUL Digital Collections
• http//www.library.cornell.edu/about/
  digital_collections.html

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Online Resources

• Photoswest (Denver Public Library)
• http//history.denverlibrary.org/images/index.html
  
• American Memory
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Smithsonian Institution
• http//www.si.edu/
• Digital Imaging Project
• http//www.bluffton.edu/sullivanm/

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Online Resources

• World Wide Arts Resources
• http//wwar.com/
• Art on the Web
• http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb.html
  
• Chicano Art Digital Image Collection
• http//cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/digitalArchives.ht
  ml
• National Gallery of Art
• http//www.nga.gov/home.htm

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Act V
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Working with Turabian Style

• Ref Desk 808.02 T929 (in library use only)
• Online Citation Stylesheet
• Turabian Citation Guide (online)
• Citation Machine (select Turabian)

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Writing Assistance

• Writing Center
• Owl _at_ Purdue
• UNC Writing Center
• Writing in Art History

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The Final Curtain

• Jason Dupree
• 774-3031
• jason.dupree_at_swosu.edu
• http//faculty.swosu.edu/jason.dupree/americanarth
  istory.htm