Catalogue and call
number hints
Some of our Australian art books are in Special Collections
(open 1- 4pm Mon-Fri or call 83035244 to make alternative
arrangements).
You may miss them if you rely on browsing in the main
collection.
A thorough seach of the catalogue is essential.
In
guided keyword the following search options may help.
Subject headings for art are quite specific and can be rather
confusing.
For example:
Art, Australia and Art, Australian
are both used, as are
Painting, Modern 20th century
Australia, Painting,
Australian
Painters Australia 20th century
It may therefore be more successful to use any keyword
in subject heading, with truncation, and search terms such
as:
Paint? Australia?
Art Australia? modern?
Other useful subject headings include
Landscape painting 19th century Australia.
Art, Australian 19th century.
Heidelberg school.
Impressionism (Art) Australia.
Australia in art
Bushrangers in art
Aboriginal Australians in art
Don't forget to search your artist as a subject heading:
Streeton, Arthur, Sir, 1867-1943
Preston, Margaret, 1875-1963
and also search the painter's name in keyword from author and
title:
Sidney Nolan
Call numbers are used to locate materials on the shelves.
709.994.....arts in general in Australia
759.994.....painting in Australia and also Australian painters.
75 (shelved as 750) and 92 (shelved as 920) may be used for older
artist's biographies
WWW sites
General/International
Art History
Resources on the web. Chris Witcombe's excellent guide from
Sweet Briar College, which has a nice set of links to Australian
Galleries
Artnet - includes a
research library with
thousands of articles form the Grove Dictionary of Art
Australia
Collections Australia Network (CAN)
National Gallery of Australia - Australian art
The
Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
Picture
Australia: an database of images from libraries etc - not many art galleries.
Art & Australia -
the website of the journal. Not full text, but useful tables of
contents, links etc.
See also
Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
Includes full text for some journals 1995-, notably
Art and Australia.
artwhatson.com.au - artists, exhibitions, galleries
In the Artist's
Footsteps
Contains:
The Heidelberg School, especially The
Women Artists of The Heidelberg School.
also an Albert
Namatjira collection
Brushstrokes
of the Coast :in conjunction with the Victorian Coastal
Council, a special project aimed at promoting the cultural,
environmental and historical significance of Victoria's coast.
William
Dargie - portraits
Re-take:
Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Photography
from the National Gallery of Australia
Experimental Art
Foundation
Contemporary Arts Centre of
South Australia
NAVA - the National Visual Arts Association
Bill Henson: three decades of photography - a 2005 exhibition from the NGV.
The Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) from the Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art
ANAT : Australian Network for Art and Technology
Studies
in Australian Indigenous art (similar guide to this)
Handbooks,
encyclopaedias and dictionaries
General
The two largest encyclopaedias are:
Dictionary of art. 1996. 34 volumes.
(Grove)
Reference collection 703 T948d
Artnet - includes a research library with
thousands of articles form the Grove Dictionary of Art
Encyclopedia of world art. 15 volumes.
1958.
Reference collection 703 E56
other general art dictionaries and encyclopedias are listed in
the guide for Studies in European
Art
Australian biography
Australian dictionary of biography
also in Reference collection 920 A937
Dictionary of Australian artists online
Australian art and
artists
The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art. 4th ed. 2006
Reference collection 709.94 M133.4
Kerr, Joan. Dictionary of Australian artists,
1992
Reference collection 709.94 D554.2
Germaine, Max Artists and Galleries of
Australia, 2 vols 1990
Reference collection 709.94 G372a.3
Kroeger, John Rennicks Australian artists, 1968
Reference collection 759.994 K93
Present day art in Australia. 1969
Reference collection 759.994 H823
Artfile: a source book of Australian contemporary
artists, 1993
Reference collection 709.94 L817a
Small, Alison. Art and artists of Australia,
1981
Reference collection 709.94 S635a
Robb, Gwenda. Concise dictionary of Australian
artists, 1993
Reference collection 709.94 R631c
South Australia
Artists in South Australia 1940-1950, 1991
a list of artists and the works they exhibited in that decade.
Reference collection 709.9423 A784s
Benko, Nancy. Art and artists of South Australia,
1969
Reference collection 709.94 B469
also in main collection and Special Collections
Wakefield companion to South Australian history, ed.
W.Prest. 2001
Reference collection 994.23003 P936w
Women artists
Kerr, J. Heritage: the national women's art
book: 500 works by 500 Australian artists from colonial times to
1955. 1995
Reference collection 709.94 K41h
Burke, Janine Australian women artists, 1840-1940
. 1980
Special collections oversize (rare) 759.994 B959a
Main Collection 759.994 B959a
Ladies' picture show: sources on a century of Australian
women artists. Caroline Ambrus. 1984
Reference collection 709.04016 A496l
Indigenous art
The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, ed.
S.Kleinert, 2000
Reserve and Reference collection 305.899915 K64o
Australians: a historical library. 1987.
v.5 From 1939 (Section III Aboriginal Australians. ch.
9. Audiences for art)
Reference collection 994 A93425
Topical bibliography of Australian Aboriginal visual
arts. 3rd ed. 1987.
Reference collection 709.94 M359t
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
Desart directory of central Australian aboriginal art and
craft centres. 1998
Reference collection 759.994 J69a
Art terminology
Clarke, M. The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms.
2001.
Reference collection 703 C599c
Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory.
1997.
Reference collection 703 P298a
Looking at prints, drawings and watercolours : a guide to technical terms, Paul Goldman, 2006
Reference collection 760.014 G619l.2
Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms. 2003
Reference collection 703 L937t.2
Critical terms for
art
history
, ed. Robert S. Nelson, 2003
Reference collection 701.18 N429c.2
Symbols and Iconography
Dictionary of symbols in art : the illustrated key to Western
painting and sculpture,
Sarah Carr-Gomm, 2000.
Reference Collection 704.94603 C312d
Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art.
1974.
Reference collection 704.94 H177d
Finding journal articles and
other references:
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 - some full text journals and news.
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. No full text - you need to
searcch for the source book or journal title in our catalogue.
Art in Australia - artist index 1916-1942
Reference collection 709.94 A7841a
Australian art and artists to 1950: a bibliography based on the holdings of the state Library of Victoria, 1982
Reference collection 709.94016 S797a
International
Art Abstracts 1984-
Art index. 1929/32-1998
Reference collection 705 A778
Academic OneFile1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals, including many art journals.
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals across all subject areas, including art.
JSTOR is a full text collection of journal from their first
issue until 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse gives access to University Press and other
scholarly electronic
journals in the social sciences, humanities etc from the mid 1990's
onwards.
Periodicals index online
- a database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Some searchable electronic full text available via Periodicals archive online
This is a useful source for finding contemporary articles about art
in the 19th and 20th centuries. If full text is not avaialble online, check catalogues of the the BSL or State Library.
Newspapers
Factiva is full text database of Australian and
international newspapers. Great for current information and reviews.
Australian newspapers (Beta test site) Historic Australian Newspapers 1803-1954 from the National Library. Developing site of digitised full text newspapers from all states.
The BSL holds a large number of newspapers older on
microfilm.
They are in the catalogue and also listed in
Newspapers in
the Barr Smith Library: a finding list
Bibliographies
The writings of Bernard Smith : bibliography
1938-1998 2000.
Barr Smith Main collection 709.94016 S643w
Choate, Ray A guide to sources of information on the
arts in Australia. 1983
Reference collection 700.994 C545g
Choate, Ray Illustration index to Australian art:
reproductions in art monographs and exhibition
catalogues. 1990.
also in print in the Reference collection 709.94016 C545i
State Library of Victoria. Australian art and artists
to 1950 : a bibliography based on the holdings of the State
Library of Victoria, compiled by Elizabeth Hanks.
1982
Reference collection 709.94016 S797a
Migrants and the arts : an annotated bibliography.
1996
Reference collection 709.94016 A938Bm
Monie, Joanna Index to English language journal
articles on Australia published overseas to 1900.
Reference collection 994.005 H673 9
Artists in South Australia, 1940-1950 : Art Gallery of South Australia Library, SAART database vol. 1. An index of artists who exhibited in South
Australia between 1940-1950 inclusive.
Reference collection 709.9423 A784s ....full version online at the AGSA library.
Don't forget to search other
libraries for books and journals which the BSL does
not hold.
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