ART 236 The Arts in America

A study of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis on such major themes and styles as portraiture, genre painting, American impressionism, and modernism, including Native American and African American traditions and Asian influences. Art works will be studied in their cultural, social and political contexts. Course requirements include visits to Museum and historic houses in Salem and Boston. Museum visits at students’ expense. Three lecture hours per week.

 

 

 

 

SSC Library Homepage (SALEM STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY)

 

 

 

General Art Databases

 

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/research/databases/

 

 

 

Available on the SSCL homepage-->Databases-->Databases by Subject-->Arts & Humanities

 

 

Art Index Retrospective

Citations to articles in scholarly journals covering all aspects of art; it is the online version of Art Index (from 1929 until 1984). 55 years of art literature from more than 600 publications.

 

 

Art Abstracts

Citations to articles in 200+ leading art publications.  Covers all aspects of art from architecture to video, including international art journals.  It is an online version of the paper Art Index, 1984-Present.

 

 

Arts and Humanities Search

Citations 1300+ art & humanities journals and 5800 social science and science journals; indexes bibliographies and online version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

 

 

ArtSTOR

ARTstor is a digital image library containing approximately 300,000 art, architecture and archeology images.

 

 

Grove Art Online

Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) Includes extensive image links and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

 

 

JSTOR

Comprehensive online journal archive of full-text scholarly journals.  JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily humanities and social sciences.

 

 

Project Muse

Full-text journal collection from Johns Hopkins University Press. SSC subscribes to the Standard Collection.

 

 

 

Additional Databases For American Art

 

http://www.noblenet.org/ssc/research/databases/

 

 

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800

 

Based on the renowned “American Bibliography” by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's “Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography.” It is often considered the definitive resource of information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, slavery, temperance, witchcraft and just about any other topic imaginable.

 

 

Early American Imprints II, Shaw-Shoemaker

 

This database provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted -American Bibliography, 1801-1819- by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker.

 

 

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876

 

Cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers, with fully text-searchable facsimile images of pages. The collection is based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820.

 

 

Early American Newspapers II

 

Cover-to-cover reproductions of historic newspapers, with fully text-searchable facsimile images of pages. Based primarily on the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), which houses a vast collection of American newspapers through 1876, Series 2 also includes titles from the newspaper collections of the Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and more than 90 other institutions.

 

 

Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)

 

A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

 

 

Making of America; Cornell University

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECT AMERICAN ART LINKS

 

 

 

HELPFUL ART HISTORY LINKS

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HELPFUL PRIMARY SOURCE LINKS

 

 

 

JOURNALS ON VISUAL ARTS