Course-Related Guide: Art
History II--Renaissance to Modern 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. 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.
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 feature to access an article full-text article
online or for information about print availability.
Grove Art Online
This electronic version of the print reference resource is
fairly new to Trinity's collections. Here, you may find
brief biographical material on artists as well as other types
of entries. Note that most of these entries include a brief
bibliography at the end. These may be used as a jumping
off point to find further information about your topic.
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.
Books
Use Quest,
the library catalog, to find books on your topic. Remember
that in a "simple search" you need specific information to have
a successful search. If your search is more general, try a
"keyword search." 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.
Internet Search Engines
To find images related to your topic, you may use
a number of image search engines.
Google Image Search
Searches for images and offers results in thumbnail
galleries. Refers researcher to the page on the web where the
image is located.
Yotophoto
New resource that searches for images available from
creative commons sites and public domain resources.
Visit our
Resources by Subject guide for Images for
an extensive list of other online image search engines.
While you may only be looking for images, the
credibility of the resource is still an issue. As a student
and scholar you will be responsible for the ethical use and citation
of images. In addition, Internet resources located using a
search engine should be evaluated before
they are included in a scholarly project. Web resources are not always
helpful to students and scholars because
(1) website addresses and contents change, making it difficult for a
reader to verify or refer to the source;
(2) websites are difficult to evaluate, often due to missing
information related to authority, currency, and accuracy;
(3) and website authors do not always use materials with
consideration to copyright law.
See the library's page on
Evaluating Web Sites for more information.
Get It From Somewhere Else
If the library does not have the article,
book, or other item that you need to complete your assignments, you
can loan these items from other libraries. Do note that this
can take from several days to weeks, so planning is imperative.
Use
ILLiad to borrow items from other libraries.
Cite Your Sources
Articles, books, images, etc. should all receive a citation that
directs the reader to your source. For assistance, refer to the
library's pages for citing sources.
Create Effective Presentations
Many groups may use Microsoft's PowerPoint
software to create slides for their presentation. Very
often, your PowerPoint slides can make or break your presentation.
It can mean the difference between communicating your arguments
and research or boring the audience to tears.
The Center for Learning and Technology (located on the
library's first floor) has put together
a handout of tips
for creating good presentations using PowerPoint. Please
review these suggestions before creating your presentations.
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