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A Thousand Words: When Art is Not Enough

PWR 1GMA - Spring 2015 - Instructor: Moyer, Gabrielle
Last Updated: 18-Mar-2015

This is a course guide for PWR 1 A Thousand Words: When Art is Not Enough.

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Subjects

Art
Art history

Related guides

Art history: beginning research

Around Stanford

Art and Architecture Library
Cantor Arts Center
Anderson Collection

Suggested reference sources

The Oxford Art Online, as the title suggests, is the premier resource for beginning your art and architecture research. The second tool is also excellent and is multidisciplinary in nature.

Oxford art online
Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. 
Blackwell reference online

Course reserves

These books are available to check out for two hours. Request them at the Circulation Desk in the Art Library.

Suggested art databases (From SearchWorks)

Art full text
Provides access to journal articles. It covers the arts of all time periods and all cultures. Publication dates range from 1984 to current. Citations include abstracts.
Art retrospective
Art Retrospective is produced by the same publisher as Art Full Text and covers the journal literature of art history from 1929 to 1984. Like Art Full Text, it covers art of all time periods and cultures.
Artbibliographies modern (ABM)
ABM focuses on modern and contemporary art (the mid-19th century to the present). Photography is especially well covered. Publication types include journal articles, book reviews, essays within collected works, exhibition catalogs, and more. Publication dates go back to the mid-1960s.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Covering arts from late antiquity (Greek, Roman) to the present, and especially useful for art from Medieval times onward, BHA includes citations for journal articles, book reviews, essays within collected works, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and more. Publication dates range from the early 1970s to 2007. For more recently published literature, search the International Bibliography of Art.
International bibliography of Art (IBA)
In terms of publication, IBA continues where BHA stops, with good coverage of art from late antiquity to the present.
AnthropologyPlus
Good resource for finding citations on African, Oceanic, and Native American arts in the journal literature of anthropology and related disciplines. It includes publications from the 19th century to the present.