Research Guides: HART 150: A Trans-National History of Art from the Age of Revolution to the fin-de-siècle (BMC): Home

Books

Print books are important. Many art books are never published as e-books, so make sure to use Tripod to find physical books in the TriCo collections. Carpenter library is an exceptionally good art library.

Tripod Library Catalog
Print books in the TriCo libraries and digital resources by individual library (BMC Tripod provides BMC digital resources)
A&AePortal
The e-books here are in Tripod, but this is a useful browsable database of museum catalogues, surveys, catalogues raisonnés, etc. See the subject areas covered here.

Metropolitan Museum of Art publications
The Met makes many of their catalogues and other publications available from their website for free. These e-books may not be listed in Tripod.

Getting Books and Articles from Other Libraries

EZBorrow allows you to request books (not articles) from regional libraries, which will usually arrive within just a few days. (Direct link to EZBorrow)
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) allows you to request scans of articles or chapters, and books not available through EZBorrow. (Direct link to Interlibrary Loan)

Citation Manager

Zotero: The Tri-College Libraries recommend Zotero, a free online app that can format your bibliography, keep your citations organized, and even save your articles in the cloud so you can access them later from the library, home, or a café.

Look out for workshops on learning Zotero that are regularly hosted in person and online. All sessions will be listed on the library events calendar here.

Finding images

Google is a great first stop because so many museums put high quality images online.

Remember when searching images that artworks do not necessarily have set titles, and translations may vary. Don't give up if you don't find the title at first, and try to figure out other titles. This is especially important for JSTOR Images.

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Many museums include images in JSTOR Images; the JSTOR platform allows you to zoom in on images to investigate details. Good resource for your object analysis paper if you can find a photo of your object.

Library help

Please get in touch with any questions. I'm happy to meet with you in person or on Zoom.

Camilla MacKay

cmackay@brynmawr.edu

610 526 7910

Make an appointment: (https://scheduler.zoom.us/camilla-mackay/)

Researching 19th c. art

Art Full Text
Journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present. Subject coverage: worldwide
ARTbibliographies Modern
Articles, books, exhibition catalogs and reviews of modern and contemporary art, including photography, sculpture and art history and theory. Subject coverage from the 19th century on. Some indexing of publications back to 1960s; full text often available for publications since ca. 2000. Subject coverage: strongest in American art, some European.
JSTOR
Full text; many top journals in the discipline. Usually does not include the most recent 3-5 years.
Oxford Art Online
Art reference library that incorporates several reference sources. Good starting place for fairly recent encyclopedia entries on art and biographical entries on artists.
Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
International Bibliography of Art
Journals, books, exhibition catalogues. Good source for non-English language materials. Some full text. Publication coverage 2008 to present (see Bibliography of the History of Art for earlier material). Subject coverage: European and American long nineteenth century (plus all American art from colonial era to present and European art from late antiquity to the present).

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (up to 2007)
Database of journal articles on European and American visual arts. Publication coverage is from 1975 to 2007. Only an index; no full text. Search Tripod for book or journal titles. Continued by International Bibliography of Art. Subject coverage: American and European.

Finding older literature (19th and early 20th century)

Hathitrust Digital Library
Millions of digitized books, journals, and publications. Full text for out of copyright material (published up to late 1920s). Log in to download full text. Predominantly English language.

Periodicals Index Online
Index and some full text of periodical literature. Covers 17th century through 1990s.

Resources for other disciplines

Literature Resource Center
Provides biographies, bibliographies and scholarly articles on novelists, poets, essayists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of highly-studied authors.
Literature Online
A full-text collection of poetry, drama, and prose. Includes complementary references sources. Offers access to information on English and American literature including bibliographies, and catalogs. Also provides access to online editions of literary works, discussion lists, electronic journals, and library catalogs. Includes links to English poetry texts, drama, and fiction. Also offers links to editions of the works of William Shakespeare, to American poetry, editions of the Bible, and Webster's dictionary.
MLA International Bibliography
Database of scholarly books and articles related to literature, language, linguistics, film, theater and folklore. Includes scholarship from 1926 to the present.
Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.
Swarthmore has access to the full text.
America: History and Life
Use this database to find scholarly journal articles on United States and Canadian history. (For articles on non-US history topics, search the Historical Abstracts database instead.)

Newspapers and primary sources

TriCo historical newspapers guide
Source for digitized newspapers from the 19th century and earlier.
Hathitrust
Both primary and secondary digitized material (mostly books and journals)
Internet Archive
Another huge digital library of digitized books and other materials. May overlap with Hathitrust, but sometimes the scans in the Internet Archive are better, so try both.
Europeana
Allows searches across national libraries and cultural collections throughout Europe: digitized books, manuscripts, images, and more.
Digital Public Library of America
Sort of like Europeana for American collections.

HART 150: A Trans-National History of Art from the Age of Revolution to the fin-de-siècle (BMC): Home

Resources on the long nineteenth century

In addition to the resources here, take a look at the guide pages for subjects that overlap with your research for more comprehensive lists of databases.