Course-Related Guide:
19th-Century American Art
These links provide
information, texts, and other resources to serve as starting
points in your research on topics in art history. Questions or
suggestions related to this course guide should be directed to
Diane J.
Graves (Art History liaison), or
Benjamin
Harris (Reference Librarian).
Databases
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, newspaper articles
and images related to your topic. The following databases may be
particularly helpful for this course. When you find useful
keywords in your search, make note of these and use the same
words and combinations of words in other search situations.
Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal
articles covering all fields of art and art history.
Limited full-text access.
Arts
& Humanities Search
This resource indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and it
indexes selected articles from social science and science journals. It Indexes
articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. When you
click on a title in this database, you can scroll to the "Cited Reference" entry
and find an abbreviated bibliography for the article. This is a convenient way
to preview the article's bibliography before you actually locate and/or read the
text.
ARTstor
ARTstor provides an impressive database of over
500,000 searchable images.
Tools within the database enable viewing (or displaying)
slides side-by-side and collecting "folders" of images for
classroom use, research, or assignments. These works are copyright cleared for
educational and research purposes. For this course, you might
conduct keyword searches to find specific artists, or limit your search to a
specific set of years.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Index and abstracts for journal articles and books covering
European and American art from late antiquity to modern.
Use the TOUR link to access an article full-text article
online or for information about print availability.
Grove Art Online
This resource offers offers encyclopedia style entries,
including
brief biographical material on artists as well as movements
and genres in art history. Note that most of these entries
include a brief list of citations that might be used to
continue your search. Also, a special page on art in the
United States includes a number of entries on developments
during the 19th-century. To go directly to this page, click on
the following link:
http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?section=art.087095#art.087095.
JSTOR
This full-text database covers topics in the humanities,
social sciences, and some of the sciences. Conduct your search and
then notice the tabs on the result screen. You can then view JSTOR results for text articles, JSTOR results for high
quality images that have been published along with those
articles, or look at the high quality images relates to your
topic in ArtSTOR.
ProjectMuse
Full-text database of articles in the humanities, social
sciences and more. This resource should offer full-text
coverage for time periods not covered by the same journals in
JSTOR.
WorldCat
Bibliographic information on books and other materials in
libraries worldwide. You can limit your search to items
held by the Trinity library, or open your search to see what
may be available through interlibrary loan. In
particular, WorldCat might help you to locate books that are
ideal for your research but that are unavailable at our
library. In this case, you should attempt to borrow these
items. See below for information on ILLiad, the library's
online system for borrowing items from other libraries.
Books
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic. Use
the "Keyword Search" feature to use several search terms. You can go
directly to the Quest catalog by clicking
HERE.
Most of the resources used by art and art history
students are located in the N call number range on the library's
4th floor.
Reference Books
The library's reference collection includes
encyclopedias, dictionaries, and bibliographies on topics
related to both women's studies and the history of art.
The "N" and "HQ" call number shelves might be smart locations
for browsing as you begin your search. Note that while
entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias are not always useful
in an academic paper, many of these entries will be accompanied
by brief bibliographies. See the following for examples of
current reference titles:
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and
Intellectual History (Reference E 169.1 E624 2001)
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
(Reference E 169.1 E626 2001)
Dictionary of American History (Reference
E174 .D52 2003)
Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914
(Reference N 6507 E525 2000)
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 (Reference NX 452.5 R64
E53 2004)
Get Items From Another Library
If the library does not have the article,
book, or other item that you need to complete your assignments, you
can borrow these items from other libraries. Do note that this
can take from several days to weeks, so planning is imperative.
Use
ILLiad to receive items from other libraries.
Cite Your Sources
Articles, books, images, etc. should all receive a citation that
directs the reader to your source. If you are constructing a
limited number of sources, refer to the
library's pages for citing sources. For projects involving more extensive research,
use the library's online bibliographic citation management
software,
RefWorks.
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