STUDIES IN
AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ART

This is a guide to library and information resources for the postgraduate Art History program,
which has been developed jointly by the
Department of History at Adelaide University and the Art Gallery of South Australia

The Barr Smith Library holds a more than adequate collection of books, journals and reference tools on art, but for in-depth research it may be necessary to consult the libraries of Adelaide's other two universities, Flinders and University of South Australia (Underdale campus), both of which have very good art collections. You can borrow from the other two university libraries with your UofA card. The State Library also often holds useful titles
All their catalogues can be consulted from here and reciprocal borrowing can be arranged.
Australia-wide locations for books can be searched using Libraries Australia (Kinetica)

Journals not held by the BSL can be located on the database
Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL).
In that database, a library location code beginning with an S is a South Australian location.

The Library of the Art Gallery of South Australia should be consulted as a last resort

For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for History, ph. 83033706
Margaret Hosking  ph. 83033706....margaret.hosking@adelaide.edu.au

I am now located on level 2, in the wedge between the 800's and the 900's.
Reference collection is now on level 2 north, in the foyer outside the Barr Smith Readig Room.
Special Collections is now on level 1 south.
For microforms use the REQUEST option in the library catalogue and select "Joint store and Intercampus request".

CONTENTS WWWsites Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries Finding journal articles: Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies Summon and the catalogue Newspaper articles             CONTENTS WWWsites Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries Finding journal articles: Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies Summon and the catalogue Newspaper articles                         CONTENTS WWWsites Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries Finding journal articles: Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies Summon and the catalogue Newspaper articles               CONTENTS WWWsites Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries Finding journal articles: Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies Summon and the catalogue Newspaper articles       Last update Margaret Hosking August 2010

WWW sites Aboriginal Art, Culture & Spirituality: Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library Browse down to find multiple links.....eg..... Aboriginal Art Online: Australian Aboriginal paintings and prints Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Australia Telstra National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Art Award Contemporary approaches to world Rock Art This site is maintained at the University of New England and has a strong Australian emphasis. Its main author describes his own interests as " ethnohistory, material culture studies and the socio-ceremonial role of art in Aboriginal Culture Current projects include work on rock art and its cultural context in the Kimberley region of Western Australia." 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.....not much Australian indigenous coverage. Norman B Tindale' s catalogue of Australian Aboriginal tribes Black arts and culture Part of the ABC Online website Includes a Visual arts section, covering "fine arts, photography, digital arts, and traditional arts and crafts." Picture Australia Follow the "Picture Trails" link, to find images on the theme of Indigenous Australia Originals of these images are held in several participating agencies, including the National Library of Australia, the Northern Territory Library, National Gallery of Australia, State Library of Victoria etc. Australian Museum Aboriginal Archaeology and Heritage Services AMBS provides quality consultancy services in all aspects of Aboriginal archaeology and heritage. Australia Council - Research Hub - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts - includes many usegful publications, especially, from your readings, Visual arts: protocols for producing Indigenous Australian visual arts, 2nd ed. and Australia's indigenous arts, which includes a chapter on Visual arts Indigenous arts resource list.....and.....Indigenous auction sales Valuing Art, Respecting Culture: Protocols for working with the Australian Indigenous visual arts and craft sector sets out protocol both to guide non-Indigenous people in their relationships with Indigenous artists and communities, and assist Indigenous artists to define their rights. Published by NAVA, written and researched by Doreen Mellor with a legal section by Terri Janke. Published 2001...also in main collection at 704.039915 M5274v And some commercial sites...... Aboriginal art directory Hermannsburg School Hermannsburg Potters Aboriginal art prints - includes artists' biographies Papunya Tula artists AP Bond art dealer Waterhole aboriginal art Many indigenous artists are well-represented on the www. Go to Google and type in the name. Google advanced search may work better for you. Assess critically the sites you find - some are very good, but be careful. Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries Indigenous Australians and their art The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, ed. S.Kleinert, 2000 Reference collection and Reserve Collection 305.899915 K64o The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture , ed. D. Horton, 2 vols. 1994. Reference collection 994.0049915 H823e Also available online Jupp, J. The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins, 2nd ed., 2001 Indigenous Australians - visual arts p 97-102, but surrounded by lots of other excellent background information. Reference collection 994 J95a.2 Australians: a historical library. 1987. v.5 From 1939 (Section III Aboriginal Australians. ch. 9. Audiences for art) Aboriginal artists dictionary of biographies: Western Desert, Central Desert and Kimberley region, M Birnberg, 2004 Reference collection 709.9403 B6196a Johnson, Vivien Aboriginal artists of the Western desert : a biographical dictionary. 1994 Reference collection 759.994 J69a ....also included in Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO) New McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art, Alan McCulloch, 4th ed.2006 Reference collection 709.94 M133.4 Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time, ed. Bill Arthur and Frances Morphy, 2005 Reference collection 994.0049915 A7911m Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections in overseas museums , C. Cooper, 1989 Reference collection 305.89915 C776a Aboriginal artefacts in the Donald Thomson collection : a microfiche catalogue, E. Ramsay, 1987 (Microfiche catalogue of the collection held at the Museum of Victoria) Reference collection 306.0899915 R178a Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO),w here you can search by artist's name or keyword. Art - International Oxford art online Includes full texts of: Grove dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)............... also in Reference collection 703 T948d Oxford companion to western art, Encyclopedia of aesthetics, Concise Oxford dictionary of art termsDictionary of art Finding journal articles: Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies Art - International databases Art abstracts has been replaced by Art and Architecture Complete, which links to more full text: Australian databases Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT. This is an essential database for research on Australian indigenous art. Mura, the on-line catalogue at the AIATSIS library, which indexes books, journal articles and other types of materials. Some items are only held at the AIATSIS in Canberra but many of the books, chapters and articles are accessible here. This is an essential database for research if you want references on very specific artists, areas and groups. AustraliaNew Zealand Reference Centre Department of the Environment and Heritage which hosts the Australian Heritage Database Max Germaine's artists and galleries on CD-ROM : the essential reference of contemporary art in Australia [electronic resource]. 1997 Multimedia Machine 334 There is also an earlier (print) edition of this work: Germaine, Max, Artists & galleries of Australia. 2 vols. 1990 Reference collection 709.94 G372a.3 Moorditj : Australian indigenous cultural expressions [electronic resource] Includes biographical details of 110 indigenous Australian artists, images of their work, and sound recordings of many of them discussing their work. 700.089915 S257m Location: Barr Smith AV Pt. 1-2 1998 (Includes: CD-ROM, List of Artists) Temporarily In Storage: Use the Requests button Interdisciplinary databases - International Academic OneFile 1980- Academic OneFile is a broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered. Academic Search Premier This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago Project Muse full text access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc since the mid 1990's. Periodicals index online Database of millions of article citations published in the arts,humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.  Links to  Periodicals archive online A full text searchable  archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts,  humanities and social sciences. Fewer titles than in PIO but deeper searching. Bibliographies Topical bibliography of Australian Aboriginal visual arts. 3rd ed. 1987 Reference collection 709.94 M359t Australia's rock art. 1990 This bibliography was compiled from HERA. Reference collection 333.7205 A938 2.2 SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE The Summon search box on the library'as home page will search across online and print articles and books. It is good for quick searches but sometimes yields too many results and lacks the refinement of subject searching in the catalogue or a database. Its subject terms are different from the catalogue's subject headings or the terms used in Historical Abstracrs with full text. It is a good way to go straight to a specific journal article with a minimum of clicks. For more specific searching use the library catalogue. To search the catalogue, use Guided Keyword and try the following in the Any Keywords option : Aborigin? artist? Aboriginal Australians material culture Aboriginal Australians Antiquities Aborigin? Cultural property Rock paintings Bark painting Also, adding the search term video? can be useful: Aborig? artist? videorecording Search also using Guided keyword , and search by Subject Heading option: Aboriginal Australians art The official subject heading is: Art, Aboriginal Australian.........browse Indigenous art can be found at a few Dewey numbers: 306.0899915, 704.039915, 709.94, 759.994 Please go to the catalogue first as you may miss some titles by merely browsing in the collection. Newspaper articles Newspaper index : references to Aborigines in Adelaide newspapers, 1836-1940 Reference collection 994.0049915 B864n Factiva is an index to Australian and international newspapers and news services and includes full text for many titles. Some coverage extends back to the early 1980's. Great for exhibition reviews articles on specific artists, auctions, controversies etc. Australian newspaper coverage is availalbe via the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project from the National Library. Currently under development. The aim is to scan up to 4.4 milliion pages fro Austrliana newspapers 1803-1954. A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers page.