TABLE OF CONTENTS

Online Catalog

Guides to the Literature

Back Ground Reading - Encyclopedia's, Dictionaries, Biography, Etc.

Online Databases including sources for online books

Electronic Books

Print Indexes

Exhibition Catalogs

Periodicals

Museums

Useful Web Sites

The USD Online Catalog (PALS) can assist you in locating citations to books, microforms, US Government Documents, videos and other materials. The Online Catalog also provides access to some full-text online books.

The Online Catalog is networked and has the capabilityof accessing the catalogs of contributing South Dakota Library Network members.

The catalog also provides access to selected databases including:

Books-in-Print
Argus Leader Newspaper Index
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Use of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LC) will lead the researcher to the most targeted information about the topic. Some examples of LC subject headings include the following:

Art, Modern - 19th Century
Art, Modern - 20th Century
Art - Research
Art - Study and teaching
Artists - France - Biography
Folk Art - Mexico - Exhibitions
Realism in Art
Sculptors - Biography
Women artists - Bibliography

Library of Congress Classification - Fine Arts
The majority of the books housed in the I.D. Weeks Library are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification. An abridged version of the N classification for the Fine Arts is provided below.

N Visual arts (General)
For photography, see TR
400-4040 Art museums, galleries, etc.
4390-5098 Exhibitions
5198-5299 Private collections and collectors
5300-7418 History of art
7430-7433 Technique, composition, style, etc.
7475-7483 Art criticism
7575-7624 Portraits
7790-8199 Religious art
8555-8585 Examination and conservation of works of art
8600-8675 Economics of art
8700-9165 Art and the state. Public Art

NA Architecture
190-1613 History. Historical monuments
2699-2790 Architectural design and drawing
2835-4050 Architectural details
4100-8480 Special classes of buildings
9000-9425 Aesthetics of cities. City planning

NB Sculpture
NC Drawing. Design. Illustration
997-1003 Commercial art. Advertising art
1300-1766 Caricature. Pictorial humor and satire
1800-1855 Posters

ND Painting
1290-1460 Special subjects, including human figure
1700-2495 Watercolor painting
2550-2888 Mural painting
2890-3416 Illuminating or manuscripts and books

NE Print media
1-978 Printmaking and engraving
1000-1352 Wood engraving. Woodcuts
1400-1879 Metal engraving. Including color prints
1940-2230 Etching and aquatint
2236-2239 Serigraphy
2250-2570 Lithography
2800-2890 Printing of engravings

NK Decorative arts, Applied arts
1135-1149 Arts and crafts movement
1700-3505 Interior decoration
3700-4695 Ceramics
4700-4890 Costume and its accessories
4997-6050 Enamel. Glass. Glyptic arts
6400-8459 Metalwork
8800-9505 Textile arts and art needlework
9600-9955 Woodwork

NX Arts in general

Location of Book Collections - The majority of the Library's book are housed on the 3rd floor.

Guides to the Literature

Jones, Lois S. Art Information and the Internet: How to Find it, How to Use it. Phoenix, Arizona, 1999. (Ref N59 J66 1999)

Jones, Lois S. Art Information: Research Methods and Resources. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1990. (N 85 J64 1990)

Wienbroer, Diana R. The McGraw-Hill Guide to Electronic Research in Art. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Back Ground Information
Directories
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Biography/Signatures

The titles listed below provide overviews of topics or definitions of terms.

Directories

American Art Directory. New Providence, NJ.: National Register Publishing, (current year) (Reference Collection N 50 A54)

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

Turner, Jane. ed. The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996. 34 volumes. (Reference Collection N 31 D5 1996)

Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. 16 volumes. (Reference Collection N 31 E5.33)

Turner, Jane. ed. The Grove Dictionary of Art. From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17th Century Dutch Artists. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. (Reference Collection N 6946 G76 2000)

Strieter, Terry. Nineteenth-century European Art: a Topical Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. (Reference collection N 6757 S77 1999)

Werness, Hope. The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art: Worldview, Symbolism, and Culture in Africa, Oceania, and Native North America. New York: Continuum, 2000. (Reference collection E 98 A7 W49 2000)

Roberts, Helene E. ed. Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. (Reference collection N 7560 E53 1998)

Turner, Jane, ed. Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2000? (Reference collection N 6507 E53 2000)

Clute, John, ed. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. (Reference Collection PN 3435 E53 1997)

An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. (Reference Collection DE 5 E5 1996)

Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art. New York: Continuum, 1996. (Reference Collection N 7793 W65 A66 1996)

Biography

Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Scullpteurs, Desinateurs, et Graveurs. Paris: Grund. 14 volumes. (Reference Collection N 40 B47 1999)

Contents: Biographical dictionary covering over 300,000 painters, sculptors, designers, and graphic artists.

The Artists of the World: Bio-Bibliographical Index A-Z. Munchen, Germany: K.G. Saur, 1999. 10 volumes. (Reference Collection N 40 A63 1992)

Contents: Biographical index that lists the names of 500,000 artists from more than 150 countries. Guides researchers to biographical information contained in 200 biographical dictionaries.

Thieme, U., & F. Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: Allmann, 1907. 37 volumes. (Reference Collection N 40 T4

Contents: Scholarly biographical articles on painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and decorative artists. Good source for less known artists. Includes few 20th century artists. Allgemeines Kunstler Lexikon 1983, in 10 volumes (Ref. Coll. N 40 V6), covers 20th century artists.

Signatures and Monograms

Castagno, John. American Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1989. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1990.

Contents: Nearly 5100 artists' signatures, monograms and estate stamps are reproduced.

 

Online Databases

The Online databases listed are accessible to USD students and faculty through the I.D. Weeks Library "Research Databases" gateway.

Art Index (Selectively full-text) 1984 to date

Content: Contains citations to articles and book reviews from about 300 periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

Arts and Humanities Search (Selectively full-text) 1980 to date

Content: The online equivalent of ISI's Arts and Humanities Citation. Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals.

Education Abstracts (Selectively full-text) 1983 to date

Content: Indexes and abstracts over 500 English language education journals. Education Abstracts includes articles on art education and aesthetics.

ERIC (Selectively full-text)

Content: The ERIC database consists of Two files : the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals. In addition, ERIC now contains over 850 ERIC Digest records that feature the full text of the original document.

Multidisciplinary databases:

Academic Search Elite (Selectively full-text) 1984 to date

Content: Multidisciplinary database

Bibliography of Native North Americans

Content: Contains citations to literature about native peoples of North American published from the sixteenth century to the present.

Biography Index (Selectively full-text). 1984 to present

Content: Covers biographical information English-language periodicals and books for all subject areas indexed by H.W. Wilson indexes.

Book Review Digest 1983 to present

Content: English-language fiction and nonfiction books excluding reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences

Dissertation Abstracts 1861-, Abstracts: 1980-

Proquest Digital Dissertations is a database of dissertations and theses submitted to UMI for publication offering search citations, abstracts and selective full-text of dissertations.

Essay and General Literature 1985 to present

Content: An author and subject index to collections of essays, with particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences.

Humanities Abstracts (Selectively full-text). 1984 to present

Content: Provides citations to periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history and literature.

Lexis-Nexis Academic (full-text). 1970 to present

Content: Includes material from more than 14,000 sources, including the full-text of over 100 daily newspapers (including the New York Times), magazines, academic journal articles, company and industry information

MLA Bibliography. 1963 to present

Content: Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.

Wilson Select Plus (Selectively full-text). 1994 to present

Content: Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade publications.

 

Electronic Books

Internet Classics Archives

http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu

Content: A source for electronic texts from the Greek, Roman and Classical world, as well as select texts from China and the East.

Net Library (I.D. Weeks Library Research Databases)

Content: Provides access to approximately 5,000 electronic books purchased by the South Dakota Library Network.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.promo.net/pg/

Content: A comprehensive source for finding full-text books from all areas in the Humanities.

 

Print Indexes

Print indexes to periodical literature are located on the first floor "Index Tables" of the I.D. Weeks Library, titles are arranged alphabetically.

Art Index 1929 - (available online through "Research Databases" page)

Content: the main body of the index consists of subject and author entries to published articles. Subject areas indexed include architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, films, graphic arts, industrial design, theatre and related areas.

Example from index

Painting, American
See also
Abstract Expressionism
Hudson River School

19th Century
All the world's a code: art and ideology in nineteenth-
Century American painting. B. Wolf. Bibl f il Art
J 44:328-37 Wint '84

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)1974 - 2001

Content: Contains citations, with abstracts, to books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and articles from journals. Subject coverage starts at c.1880. 19th century artists and art movements that have an impact on modern art are included.

Example from index

Drawing: 19th century

5414 American drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton
University: 130 selected examples. Princeton, New
Jersey: Art Museum, Princeton University (3 Oct. -28 Nov.
1976). B.T. Ross. 134 pp. 131 illus.

Rather than a comprehensive catalogue for the exhibition,
This publication forms a checklist of the collection of
American drawings at Princeton. 130 items are illustrated.

Bibliographic Index 1937-1991 (2nd floor bound periodicals)

Content: A subject list of bibliographies published separately or appearing as parts of books, pamphlets, and periodicals.

Example from index

Painting, Modern

19th century
see also
Painting, Victorian
Bendiner, Kenneth. An introduction to Victorian
Painting. Yale Univ. Press 1985 p167-73.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) 1991-2000

Content: BHA is the successor to RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie). Covers the current literature of European art from late Antiquity to the present and American art from the European discoveries to the present.

Biography Index 1946-1998 (available online through "Research Databases" page)

Content: A guide to biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company indexes. Biographical material indexed includes obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, and bibliographies.

Example from index

Home, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter
Curry, D. P. Winslow Homer and croquet. Bibl il
Antiques 126: 154-62 Jl '84

Humanities Index 1974 - (available online through "Research Databases" page)

Content: A cumulative index to English language periodicals. The main body of the Index consists of author and subject entries to periodical articles arranged in one alphabet. Subject fields indexed include archaeology and classical studies, area studies, folklore, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion and related subject.

Example from index

Art
See also
Aesthetics
Christian art

Art - History

19th century

see also
Impressionism (Art)

Histories of the tribal and the modern. J. Clifford.
il Art Am 73:164-77+ Ap '85

New York Times Index. 1851-1999 (available online through "Research Databases" page)

Content: Contains abstracts of the significant news, editorial matter and special features published in the newspaper, daily and Sunday. The abstracts are classified under appropriate subject, geographic, organization and personal name headings.

Example from index

Art, see also Ceramics and Potter. Handicrafts. Models (Professional). Posters
Printing and Allied Trades. (Robberies, Ja 1,15, My 25, Je,56, Jl 3 Trades.
(Robberies, Ja 1, 15, My 25, Je, 56, Jl 3)
55-foot tall sculpture by Alexander Calder, Mountains and Clouds' is being
built with private funds to fill lobby of Senate office building left bare by
Federal budget cuts (s), Ja 1, I, 8:1.

 

Exhibition Catalogs

Exhibition catalogs provide a record of temporary gallery displays and also disseminate information about the artist, art movements and news about what is currently in vogue.

An example of some exhibition catalogs available in the I.D. Weeks Library collection are listed below:

Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawing from the Artist's Studio. Exhibition November 10 to December 29, 2000. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. (NE 539 C3 A4 2000)

Adrian Piper: a Retrospective. Exhibition organized by Maurice Berger... Baltimore: Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, 1999. (N 6537 P5 A4 1999)

Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth-Century Retablo Tradition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. (ND 1432 M45 A78 2001)

Allen Graham: Fifteen Paintings, 1978 and 1979: Exhibition, Museum of Fin Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2-25, 1979. Santa Fe: Blue Feather Press, 1979? (N 40.1 G7385 A44x)

Periodicals
(Journals, Magazines, Newsletters)

Periodical articles are essential to the researcher as they often provide the most recent information on a subject. Often the only place to find information about a topic is in periodical literature. In order to locate articles on a specific topic, an index or abstracting service may be necessary.

Selected Art Periodicals available at I.D. Weeks Library

Abitare
American Antiquity
American Art Review
American Artist
American Cinematographer
American Craft
American Indian Art Magazine
American Journal of Archaeology
Antiquity
Aperture
Apollo
Archaeology
Architectural Digest
Architectural Record
Architectural Review
Architecture
Art Bulletin
Art Criticism
Art Journal
Art News
Artforum International
Artweek 1985-2002
British Journal of Aesthetics
Ceramics Monthly
Cineaste
Communication Arts Magazine
Entertainment Design
Film Quarterly
Flash Art
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Journal of Aesthetic Education
Journal of Popular Film and Television
Native Peoples
New Criterion
Print
Studio Potter
TD&T
Woman's Art Journal

MUSEUMS

Listed below are some museums that provide web access to selected portions of their collections.

Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html

Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

Museum of Contemporary  Art - Chicago
http://www.mcachicago.org/

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/

Philadelphia Museum of art
http://www.philamuseum.org/

San Francisco Museum of Modern art
http://www.sfmoma.org/

Yahoo's List of Modern and Contemporary Art Museums
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Museums__Galleries__and_Centers/Modern_and_Contemporary/

Useful Web Sites
As recommend by the McGraw-Hill Art Gallery

The McGraw-Hill Art Gallery
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art/index.htm

Internet Art Resources
http://www.artresources.com/
A directory of, and links to, contemporary artists, galleries, and museums plus an online magazine.

Digital Librarian: Art
http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html
An extremely long, alphabetically organized, list of links for all sorts of art resources from the mundane to the esoteric.

WWW Virtual Library History of Art Index
http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/
The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links aimed at assisting students of Art History.

Art History Sites on the Web
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/AHWA/Signets/index.html
A broad selection of Art History links compiled by the Art History Webmasters Association at the University of Quebec at Montreal, including links to Art History courses, organized by region, period, and subject.

Digital Imaging Project
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html
An index of links to Art History Web sites from the art of prehistory to postmodernism compiled by Mary Ann Sullivan at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio.

Art Navigator
http://www.uiah.fi/internetguide/navigator.html
Various art-related links divided into five categories: General Art Resources, Art and Culture Resource lists by Country, Finnish Art and Culture on the Web, Art and Design Lists by Topic, Surfer's List to Art on The Web, and Art and Design Publications on the Web.

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
http://www.amn.org/AMICO/
The AMICO digital library will initially be distributed in the academic year 1998/1999 as a university test bed project. Currently, anyone can search the "Thumbnail Catalog" of nearly 20,000 works of art to locate images by keyword, category, or date.

http://www.wwar.com/
This site probably provides the most comprehensive links to artists, art movements, galleries, museums, exhibitions and other information relevant to Art and Art History of any site on the internet. The site also provides access to employment agencies and commercial arts. It even provides an "arts locator" you can use to find out about events and activities in cities around the world.

Mother of All Art History Links Pages
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
A directory of links to a variety of sources, including research resources, from the University of Michigan

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This is a very large and detailed set of links for web resources in Art History--from Prehistoric Art to the 20th Century. While the emphasis is on Western Art, there is a section on "Non-European Art" as well.

ADAM
http://adam.ac.uk/adam/
ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a service being developed to help you find useful, quality-assured information on the Internet in the following subject areas: Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Applied Art, Media, and Theory.

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This site offers an index of resources organized by time period, from Ancient to Modern Art.

Artcyclopedia:
the Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
http://artcyclopedia.com/
If you are just getting started searching for fine art on the Web and you are looking for works by a particular artist, Artcyclopedia is a great jumping off place. Using Artcyclopedia, you can type in or select an artist's name, and be taken to a list of Websites providing digital images of that artist's work.

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