WWW sites
Before and after science - the 2010 Adelaide biennial af Australian art
artwhatson.com.au - artists, exhibitions, galleries in Australia
Chris
Witcomb's excellent Art History page from Sweet Briar College
includes
20th
century art - General
Later
20th century art
Research
Resources
Museums and
Galleries
including:
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York
New Museum of Contemporary
Art (NY)
Tate Modern,
London
Guggenheim
Broad Art Foundation,
California
The Getty Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney
Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art
Experimental Art
Foundation, Adelaide
Contemporary Art Centre of South
Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,and their podcasts.
Art Gallery of New South Wales....Wildernesss.....Balnaves Conemporary painting
Modern and Contemporary artists and art
Intute: Visual arts. the Art, Design,
Architecture & Media Information Gateway (UK).
A searchable catalogue of some 2500 evaluated internet
resources.
You can search for an artist or a particular artform.......eg
installation.
dmoz: open directory project Visual arts
Post modernism and art
history: Gallery reviews from around New York
Web links for week 6's readings
Australian network for Art and Technology - ANAT
Artlink is available online via Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT
Experimenta
Wark, Mackenzie. Museums as custodians of the future
McDonald Crowley, Amanda
Resistant media
Web-based readings from the Bibliography
Realtime + Onscreen
Neural: media art, hacktivism, emusic, since 1993
These are but a few suggestions.
Many contemporary artists are well-represented on the www.
Try google to search
for their websites or information about them.
Encyclopaedias
and dictionaries
General
Oxford art online
Includes full texts of:
Grove dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)
Oxford companion to western art,
Encyclopedia of aesthetics,
Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms
Artists: from Michaelangelo to Maya Lin. 2
volumes. 1995.
Reference collection 709.22 E67a
Atlas of western art history: artists, sites, and movements
from ancient Greece to the modern age. 1994.
Reference collection 709 S814a
Dictionary of women artists. 2 volumes.
1997.
Reference collection 709.2203 G289d
The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art t. 4th ed. 2006.
Reference collection 709.94 M133.4
International dictionary of art and artists. 2
volumes. 1990.
Reference collection 703 V788i
Oxford dictionary of art. 2nd ed.
1997.
Reference collection 703 C538o.2
Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of the arts.
1990.
Reference collection 703 N892o
The world's master paintings: from the early Renaissance to
the present day.
2 volumes. 1991.
Reference collection 750.74 M948w
Twentieth Century
Art C20: the Thames and Hudson multimedia dictionary of modern
art.
1998 . CDROM
PC 334 Multimedia
Art at the turn of the millennium, ed. Uta
Grosenick. 1999
An illustrated survey (A-Z) of 137 international artists active
during the 1980s and 90s.
Reference collection 709.22 G877a
Art of our century: the story of Western art 1900 to the
present. 1990.
Reference collection 709.04 F391a
Artfile: a source book of Australian contemporary
artists. 1992
Reference collection 709.94 L187a
Contemporary artists. 5th ed. 2 vols. 2002.
Reference collection 709.22 C761.5
Contemporary masterworks. 1991.
Reference collection 709.04 N333c
Kostelanetz, R. Dictionary of the
avant-gardes. 2nd ed. 2000
Reference collection 700.90403 K86d
Dictionary of twentieth century art.
1998.
Reference collection 709.04 C538d
Glossary of art, architecture and design since
1945. 3rd ed. 1992.
Reference collection 703 W181g.3
Styles, schools, and movements
: an encyclopaedic guide to modern
art, Amy
Dempsey. 2002
Reference collection 709.04 D389s
New York Times guide to the arts of the 20th
century. 2002
Reference collection 700.904 N532g
Oxford companion to twentieth-century art.
1981.
Reference collection 709.04 O98
Penguin companion to the arts in the twentieth
century. 1985.
Reference collection 700.90403 M163p
Chronology of twentieth-century history: arts and
culture. 2 volumes. 1998.
Reference collection 700.103 M194c
Art terminology
Artspeak : a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and
buzzwords, 1945 to the present, Robert Atkins. 2nd
ed. 1997.
Reference collection 709.04 A874a
Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory.
1997.
Reference collection 703 P298a
Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms, M. Clarke,
2001
Reference collection 703 C599c
Nelson, Robert S. Critical terms for art history, 2nd
ed. 2003
Reference collection 701.18 N429c.2
Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms.
1984.
Reference collection 703 L937t
Photography
Contemporary photographers.
1982 Ref 770.922 C761
1988 Ref 770.922 C761.2
1995 Ref 770.922 C761.3
4th ed on order
Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography, ed. Lynne Warren, 3 vols, 2006
Reference collection 770.3 W289e
Finding journal articles and
other references
Indexes and Databases
Art - International
Art abstracts has been replaced by Art and Architecture Complete, which links to more full text:
Comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications, and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.
Artbibliographies modern. 1969-
State Library (1969-1987) and University of South Australia Library
(1969-1996)
ArtStor
Digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Interdisciplinary indexes and databases - International
For Australian artists, use Australian databases
Academic OneFile, 1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas.
JStor is an online full text collection of hundreds of
journals, including some major art titles, from their first
issue until 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse - scholarly journals from US university presses
from the mid 1990's to the present, including PAJ: A Journal of
Performance and Art 1996-
Interdisciplinary indexes and databases - Australia
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
Includes full text for some journals 1995-, notably
Art and Australia.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, and popular culture with access to the full-text of Australasian and international magazines, news, reference books, and scholarly journals.
Mura, the
on-line catalogue at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies, which indexes books, journal
articles and other types of materials.
Newspapers
Factiva is an index to Australian and international
newspapers, magazines etc and includes full text for many titles.
Great for current and recent exhibitions, controversies, reviews,
etc.
Bibliographies
American women photographers : a selected and annotated bibliography, Martha Kreisel, 1999.
Reference collection 770.973 K92a
Contemporary art : a bibliography of publications by members of
the Power Institute 1968-1985, by Anthony
Bradley 1986
Reference collection 709.94016 B811c
Subject
headings to search in the catalogue
Use Library Catalogue - basic search from the home page and
select subject heading from
the "search by" box:
Art, Modern 20th century........... browse places
Art, Modern 21st century
Installations (Art)
Performance art
Video art
Photography
Feminism and art
Women artists
Art museums
You can also use these terms, or your artist's name in a guided keyword search which will combine keywords for you.
RESOURCES ELSEWHERE
The Barr Smith Library holds limited resources for some of these topics.
For in-depth research it may be necessary to consult other libraries, specifically
University of South Australia (City West),
You can borrow books from Flinders and UniSA using your University of Adelaide student card.
The Library of the Art Gallery of South Australia should only be consulted as a last resort.
If you want to seach across a number of libraries for a particular title or topic,
use Libraries Australia.
Journals not held in th BSL can be located elsewhere in Australia using
Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL)
Books and journal articles from interstate may be borrowed via document delivery.
There is also a separate guide to Studies in Australian Indigenous Art. |
