Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists of the 20th Century: 
  Ref N33.P74 2000
• Grove Art:  The online version of the major English-language art encyclopedia.  Includes a small library of art images, as well.
• The Dictionary of Art.
  Ref N31.D5 1996 (The print form of the encyclopedia.)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of reference books.  You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “avant garde”, “modern art”, or subjects like “art, modern” or “art and society” or “avant garde”. For example, look at:

• Anarchist Modernism:  Art, Politics, and the First American Avant Garde / Allan Antliff 
  NX650.A52 A58 2001
• 1915, the Cultural Moment : the New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art & the New Theatre in America / edited by Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick.
  E169.1.A1126 1991
• Politics, Art and Society / William Morris.  [Electronic book ; click title to view]

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, archaeology, and more.
• ARTstor:  An image database that covers a broad range of art, from ancient times to the present.
• Art Full Text (1984-present) and Art Retrospective (1929-1984)
  Great places to look for journal articles on art-related topics.  They index journal articles, yearbooks, museum bulletins, bibliographies, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews.  Some full text available.
• Historical New York Times:   Full page images of the news from 1851-2001.
• Arts and  Humanities:  Covers a wide range of humanities topics, and how they relate to politics.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• WorldImages: 
  The main page for the California State Universities IMAGE project, which includes more than 50,000 images from all over the world.
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division:
  A searchable database of prints & photos held by the Library.  Other visual material is accessible through http://www.loc.gov/index.html.