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Designing Memorials: Building Rhetoric into Commemoration

PWR 2ZS - Spring 2014 - Instructor: Sifuentes, Z.
Last Updated: 2-Mar-2015

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This is a course guide for PWR 2 Designing Memorials: Building Rhetoric into Commemoration taught by Zachary Sifuentes.

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Suggested reference sources

This first reference tool is a great starting point for beginning your research and is multidisciplinary in nature. The Oxford Art Online, as the title suggests, is the premier resource for beginning your art and architecture research.

Blackwell reference online
Provides full-text access to reference works in the humanities, social sciences, and business and management. It supports browsing and full-text searching.
Oxford art online
A great starting point. Contains the full text of five reference works: Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Encylopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. The Grove Art Online entries feature essays with bibliographies.

SearchWorks tips

SearchWorks is the name of the Stanford Libraries catalog. It contains records for books, ebooks, DVDs, journals, archival material and more. It does not contain records for articles. SearchWorks uses relevancy ranking in displaying search results, much like Google. For tips on searching for books, see the "Find books" guide at the top of the page.

SearchWorks records include linked Subject terms which describe a particular item. Below are some Subject terms which relate to this class. Note how a main heading may further subdivide by subheadings like Social aspects, Environmental aspects, Case studies, Psychological aspects, etc. Linked headings will help you discover more material on your topic.

War memorials -- Social aspects
Holocaust memorials
Memory -- Psychological aspects

Suggested art databases

This list of art and architecture databases will lead you to articles, essays in collected works, exhibition catalogs, etc., in the literature of art history, architecture and design.

Artbibliographies modern
Abstracts journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews.
Avery index to architectural periodicals
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation. Includes summaries.
Design and applied arts index: DAAI
International index to design and craft journals and newspapers from 1973 onward. Citations include annotations.
Urban studies abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts for the journal literature of urban studies with links to full-text.

Other databases

This list includes news sources and indices for the literature of psychology and sociology.

Academic search premier
This a great staring point for becoming acquainted with a topic as it is multidisciplinary in nature and covers both scholarly and popular articles. Includes newspaper sources.
LexisNexis: academic
Provides full-text of current news covering local, regional, national and international news sources.
PsychINFO
Contains citations to articles, book chapters and books in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Sociological abstracts
Provides citations with summaries for literature in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.