For
background information, first read the entry on your artist(s) in the Grove
Art Online UW
restricted
Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary
of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western
Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Articles that have been added or updated
since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of
the screen. You can also browse to entries on the genre or style, use the bibliographies
to find scholarly sources, and use the "related articles" search feature
to broaden your results.
Books
and Articles: Search Tips
BOOKS
- the UW Libraries Catalog
In the Catalog,
logon with your library barcode and PIN number - this will save you
time when requesting books from other UW Libraries!
Review
the books on reserve for this class Look up
these books in the Catalog and use their LC Subject links to look for
other books on your artist or theme
See if there are other copies in the UW Libraries or Summit
Skim the bibliographies
of any sources you've found so far, including the Grove Art Online.
Search the Catalog
for books that cover your artist, the artistic style or the historical
context
From the Catalog
homepage select Advanced Keyword search
On the Advanced
Keyword page change the drop down box for Language from ANY
to ENGLISH
Add your keywords
or subjects in the boxes above. You can also change the ANY
FIELD drop-down box to SUBJECT to focus your results
For example:
Watteau Jean Antoine
Canaletto [for some artists use just the last name!]
18th Century
AND
aristocracy
or nobility
books or reading
merchants or commerce or work*
france (or another geographic location)
Note: work* will
search on work, worker, workers, working, workplace, etc.
Click on the
Request/Place Hold button to have books
sent here from the UW Seattle or Tacoma campus libraries. Enter your
library barcode and PIN number (unless you've already logged onto
the Catalog).
Click on Search
Summit to see if any other college or university libraries
in the region have a copy - these generally arrive within 3-5 days.
ARTICLES
If you're off campus,
click on the OFF-CAMPUS access link at the top of the class research
guide and enter your UW NetID
Skim the bibliographies
of any other sources that you've found, including the Grove Online
For articles
- do a title search in the UW Libraries Catalog (limiting to Journals)
Make sure that you're searching on the title of the journal, not the
title of the article
In some cases
the journal may only be available from the UW Seattle campus. Use
our Order Articles
service to request a copy. This usually takes about 2-5 days and is
a free service.
Here are two
examples from the bibiography in Making up the Rococo: Francois
Boucher and His Critics:
Bergstrom, Carson.
"Purney, Pastoral, and the Polymorphous Perverse: Sexual Idealism
and Early Eighteenth-Century Pastoral." British Journal
for Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1994): 149-63.
A search
in the Catalog for this journal indicates that it's only available
in print at the UW Seattle Suzzallo Library, but you could probably
have a copy delivered to you online within a few days.
