ARH101: Writing Art/Art Writing  Tags: ward fall09 arh  

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Critical Evaluation of Resources. University of California Berkeley Library.
Covers scholarly vs. popular publications, primary vs. secondary resources, authority, and other criteria for evaluating print and online sources.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask. University of California Berkeley Library.

Hillyer Art Library Website
Information about art library collections, borrowing, hours, equipment, and staff.

Location of Art Library Materials
Browsing guide to the arrangement of the books, journals, and other resources in Hillyer Art Library.

Contact Kelly Holbert, Exhibition Coordinator, Smith College Museum of Art,
to make an appointment to view curatorial files:
email: kholbert@email.smith.edu | phone: X3114.

Oxford Art Online
Includes 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present -- on cultures and civilizations (Rome, Ancient), major art movements, individual artists, specific places (Antioch), monuments, materials (stone), techniques (Mosaic; Rome, ancient: Mosaics), themes and subjects. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources and usually includes links to good quality illustrations available on the Internet.

Art Reference N7760 .L49 1981
Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC). 9 vols. Zürich: Artemis, 1981-1999.
Standard source for information about Classical iconography -- literary sources, history, illustrations, and bibliography. Note sections on personifications of specfic rivers, for example, Pyramos in "Pyramos et Thisbe" vol. 7, "Euphrates" in vol. 4, "Tigris" in vol. 8, or the extensive section "Neilos" (the Nile) in vol. 6.