What is modern art?
Movements, Periods &
Artists
Note: For every
movement, period and artist below you can find:
Post-Impressionism
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
Art Nouveau
Early Modern Sculpture
- Modern
Sculpture from Infoplease.com
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
- Auguste Rodin -
Musee Rodin, B.Gerald
Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden
- Edmonia Lewis - PBS,
Artist Hero,
Smithsonian
American Art Museum, World
Art Kiosk
- Aristide Maillol - Musee
Maillol
- Ernst Barlach - Tate
Gallery, Cleveland
Museum of Art, World
Art Kiosk (CSU)
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Wilhelm
Lehmbruck Museum, World
Art Kiosk, Androom
Archives
- Kathe Kollwitz - Kathe
Kollwitz Museum, Artists
Online
- Pablo Picasso - Online
Picasso Project, Picasso.com,
Guggenheim
- Jacob Epstein - Rhapsody
in Black, UK
Government Art Collection, World
Art Kiosk
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon - Guggenheim,
the-artists.org
French Expressionism:
Fauvism
- The
Fauves from Steven Sander
- Fauvism
from Discover France
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
German Expressionism
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
Cubism
Futurism
- Futurism
from the Guggenheim
- Futurism
from Flux Europa
- Futurism - includes
links to translated futurist manifestos
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
Early Modernism in America
Art between the Wars
- De
Stijl from Cornell
- De
Stijl from San Jose State U.
- Bauhaus
from Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design
- Artists
- for more information on the artists or to find other artists,
go to:
Russia: Constructivism
American Art 1920 - 1940
Research
Resources
Library
Resources
Reference
Books:
Stewart Library
owns or has access to a large number of resources
to help in your research. If you're not sure of a topic or need
some background information, reference books can be very helpful.
Some good ones to start with are:
- A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
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in Oxford
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- A Dictionary of Architecture
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in Oxford
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- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists
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in Oxford
Reference Online |
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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in Oxford
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- The Oxford Dictionary of Art
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in Oxford
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also print: Ref. Table 3A |
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- The Wilson chronology of the arts
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- The Continuum encyclopedia of native art : worldview,
symbolism, and culture in Africa, Oceania, and North America
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REF E98.A749 2000 |
- Atlas of western art history : artists, sites, and
movements from ancient Greece to the modern age
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REF G1046.E46S7 1994 |
- Encyclopedia of artists (Oxford)
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WSU Davis REF N31.E53 2000 |
- The Oxford companion to Western art
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REF N33.L353 2000 |
- Yale dictionary of art and artists
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REF N33.L353 2000 |
- The Prestel dictionary of art and artists of the 20th
century.
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REF N33.P74 2000 |
- A dictionary of art titles : the origins of the names
and titles of 3,000 works of art
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REF N33.R56 2000 |
- The New York Times guide to the arts of the 20th century
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REF N5300.O9462 2001 |
- The Grove dictionary of art. From expressionism to
post modernism : styles and movements in 20th-century Western
art
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REF N6490.G7243 2000 |
- Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art
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REF N6502.E53 1999 |
- Encyclopedia of American art before 1914
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REF N6507.E53 1999 |
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REF N6538.N5P38 1998 |
- Encyclopedia of comparative iconography : themes depicted
in works of art
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REF N7560.E53 |
- Contemporary women artists.
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REF N8354.C66 1999 |
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REF NB198.C38 1998 |
- Outsider, self taught, and folk art annotated bibliography
: publications and films of the 20th century
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REF NX456.N49 2002 |
- Twentieth-century artists on art : an index to writings,
statements, and interviews by artists, architects, and designers
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REF NX456.R59 1996 |
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REF PN 6084.A8Q68 2002 |
- The Focal encyclopedia of photography
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REF TR9.F6 1993 |
- The Encyclopedia of crafts
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REF TT9.S37 |
- Fairchild's dictionary of home furnishings; furniture
and bedding, accessories, curtains and draperies, fabrics
and fibers, and floor coverings.
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REF TX326.H6
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- Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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REF Z5956.O85S45 2002 |
You can find many other
referencebooks on art topics by browsing the following call number
areas:
N
General Visual Arts
NA
Architecture
NB
Sculpture
NC
Drawing, Design, Illustration
ND
Painting
NE
Print Media
NK
Decorative Arts
NX
Arts in General
TR
Photography
TT
Handicrafts, Arts & Crafts
TX
Home Economics
Finding Books:
Use the WSU online
catalog to find books and other materials, including DVDs
and videos, which the Library owns. The catalog will provide the
location and availability of the resource, We also have a subscription
to Netlibrary,
which provides access to electronic books. To find books
in other libraries, use WorldCat.
Finding Articles:
The best way to find articles
is to use one of the Library's article databases. These databases
provide references to articles in journals. In many cases, the
actual article is available onlline.
Our databases are available
from home or work. Just click on the link and enter your WSU username
and password when prompted.
Useful databases for Art
research include:
- Academic
Search Premier is a general database that allows you to search
important journals in many fields, including all areas of history.
It has many full-text articles and is a good place to begin your
research.
- Art
Full Text Citations and abstracts from 1984 to present,
selected fulltext articles from 1997 to the present, covering
Art History, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Industrial Design, Motion
Pictures, & Television.
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Bibliography
of the History of Art - The premier international scholarly
reference in art history. Including citations to writings from
1973 to present, covering visual arts in all media including
traditional fine arts; decorative and applied arts; material
culture; photography and contemporary new media; and visual
arts aspects of performing arts. Includes access to RILA (International
Repertory of the Literature of Art), and AA Repertoire d'Art
et d'Archeolgie). 1973 to present. Use this to find citations.
Use interlibrary loan to order items.
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals. 1980 - present, updates
weekly.
- Reader's
Guide Retrospective Indexes and some abstracts to articles
in popular magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Life and many others.
1890-1982.
- WorldCat
Over one billion items in 10,000 libraries worldwide.
- Philosopher's
Index indexing and abstracts from books and journals of
philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics,
aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology,
and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of
law, religion, science, history, education, and language. 1940
- present.
- America:
History and Life Indexes scholarly literature on the history
and culture of the United States and Canada. 1964-Present.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch Full text Articles from minority and ethnic
newspapers, magazines, and journals in English and Spanish. 1960-present.
- GenderWatch
Full text Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles addressing
the impact of gender in society. 1990-Present (with selected
articles from the 1970's and 1980's)
- Lexis/Nexis
Academic - Full-text coverage of many newspapers from
across the US and around the world. Good for reviews.
To find out what online
journals are available search our Ejournals
Database. You can search the name of the journal by title or
title keyword.
Browsing Current
Periodicals:
You can also browse through
journals and magazines. This can be helpful when you're looking
for a topic. Current issues are on the 1st floor south, older volumes
on the 2nd floor. Use the call number areas listed under books.
For example:
N 1
General Visual Arts
NA 1
Architecture
TT1
Arts & Crafts
Interlibrary Loan:
If we do not own a particular
book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another
library through Interlibrary
Loan .
Web
Resources
There's a lot of good
information out on the web. Unfortunately, some of it's not so
good, so be sure to evaluate, evaluate, evaluate!
Databases & Gateways
- Art History
Resources on the Web - by Professor Christopher Witcombe,
Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Resources are subdivided by time
period.
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Art
History Resource Centre - From Concordia University
in Canada, this site includes newsgroups, mailing lists, library
catalogs, article indexes, online collections, and links on
citing sources.
- WWW Virtual Library
History of Art many useful links, including computer
applications in Art History.
- Mother of
All Art and Art History Links Pages from the School
of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
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Yahoo
- Arts: - a hierarchical directory to arts information
(http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/). See also Visual Arts/Sculpture/)
- AskArt.com - a comprehensive
database about of over 23,000 North American artists, browse
by name or category
- Voice of the Shuttle: Art
- art, archaeology, architecture, and design links
- The Web Gallery
of Art - contains over 9,200 digital reproductions of European
paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and
1800.
- World Wide Arts Resources
- access to artists, museums, galleries, high quality art, art
history, arts education, antiques, dance, theater, classified
ads, resume postings, arts chats, etc.
- Art History
Research at the Getty much information is available
to remote users.
- "The Hidden Web"consists of sites that search
engines can't find, usually due to the type of files they contain,
such as PDF and database files. Many of these sites are very
useful. The best way to find them is to use directory listings.
The sites listed above all list Hidden Web sites of use to Art
Historians. Other good general directories include: Librarian's
Index to the Internet , the
Invisibleweb.com ,
and The Internet Public Library
, as well as the directory features of Google and Yahoo.
Images
Museums
- Clearly identify your information need
- Identify key words and search
terms to match your topic
- Develop search statements using advanced
search techniques such as Boolean logic, adjacency searching
and truncation.
- Use the Online
catalog to find books, videos and other materials
- Use an appropriate article database
to find journal articles, ask a librarian for help if you're
not sure what's best
- Use Interlibrary loan to
get materials that are not in Stewart Library
- Use search
engines to find Web information
- Carefully
evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
- Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your
results, be creative, look in other areas
- Use appropriate style to document
and cite research
- Ask for HELP at
Reference ,
via phone or email.
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