Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Library session for WRI 152/153 Impressionism and the Making of Modern Art

Basics | Finding Facts | Finding Books | Finding Articles | Finding Images

| Basics |

Library session web page, http://marquand.princeton.edu/wri152.php

Princeton University Library web page, http://libweb.princeton.edu/

Library online catalog, http://catalog.princeton.edu/

Find Articles and Databases, http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Degas Exhibition, http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Degas/html/index1.html

National Gallery of Art: Degas Exhibition, http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/degas/index.shtm

Phillips Collection: Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition, http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/exhibits.html

| Finding Facts |

TIP #1: Facts can be found in both print and electronic sources. Web searching is fine, but remember that the library pays for more academic resources.

Grove Dictionary of Art
This good general resource includes biographies of both Western and non-Western artists, architects, patrons, critics, and collectors in addition to major entries on art styles, subjects, and media.

Maurice Serullaz, Concise encyclopedia of impressionism. Secaucus, N.J. : Chartwell, c1974.
Marquand Library (SA) ND547 .S475 1974

Russell T. Clement, Annick Houze, and Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey, The women impressionists : a sourcebook. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Firestone Library (F) Z5961.F7 C58 2000
Marquand Library (SA) Z5961.F7 C58 2000

| Finding Books |

TIP #1: You will not find articles in the online catalog, only journal titles. For articles look in databases like the Art Index.

TIP #2: When doing keyword seaches you must use AND, OR, NOT logic. See below for details.

TIP #3: If Princeton doesn't have everything you need, search large online catalogs such as RLIN or WorldCat. You can request items through the Borrow Direct service or interlibrary loan.

Keyword Searching

Try to think of words that are specific to your topic (such as manet and criticism) and not too general (modern art). Think of multiple ways to describe what you want. A keyword search requires Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) or quotes.

Use quotes for exact phrases, such as "parisian society"

Combine keywords to narrow your search

drawing and "van gogh"
"nineteenth century" and paris and art
(cubism and france) not paris

You can also use truncation. For example, impressioni? picks up words like "impressionism" and "impressionists"

Subject Searching

When you search by subject, you can search by a very broad concept (impressionism) to a very narrow one (biographies of French Fauvist artists). You must put your search words in a particular order, and you cannot use AND, OR, NOT.

impressionism
impressionism (art) -- exhibitions
fauvism -- france -- biography
degas
renoire auguste 1841-1919 -- criticism and interpretation

Note: the dashes (--) between words are to illustrate the subdivisions.

Limiting Searches

The "Set Limits" button takes you to a screen where you can set limits which will narrow your search results. These limits only work with keyword searches. They stay in effect for subsequent searches unless you clear them.

You can limit by:

Date (year item was published)
Language
Item type (such as archival collection or music score)
Medium (such as a soundrecording or visual material)
Location (a specific Princeton library)
Place of publication (country, US state, Canadian province)

| Finding Articles |

TIP #1: As in the main catalog, both keyword and subject searching will work in databases like Art Index.

TIP #2: To find the actual article in the library after finding the citation, you have to search the online catalog for the title of the journal. For instance, to find the following article:

Edith Balas, "A contribution towards the understanding of Seurat's late works." In Gazette des Beaux Arts v. 136 no. 1581 (October 2000) p. 155-8.

Do a journal title search in the online catalog for Gazette des Beaux Arts.

TIP #3: Many databases support Find it @PUL, which searches for the article in full text sources and in our online catalog.

Art Index
Good, all purpose index to periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. Covers all the arts, including architecture.

ArtBibliographies Modern
An index to artists and movements beginning with Impressionism, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Particularly strong in photography, lesser known artists, and foriegn language literature.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including books, museum and exhibition catalogs, Festschriften, congress and symposium proceedings, dissertations. Very scholarly sources.

| Finding Images |

TIP #1: Use both print and electronic resources for finding images.

TIP #2: Often journal articles will contain images. Citations in Art Index will indicate if there are reproductions of plans, elevations, etc. Marquand has two scanners and a color printer, so you can scan images in for use in your papers and presentations.

TIP #3: Museum websites can be excellent sources of digital images, if you know which museum owns the artwork you are interested in. Consult a select list of museums.

Almagest
Contains digitized images for study and class use, accessible throughout the campus.

Artcyclopedia
A commercial site useful for locating images.

ARTstor
Online image collection.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
Online collection documenting more than 115,000 works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of the members of the Art Museum Image Consortium.