You will provide information about modern artists in your country. Provide some pictures from the Internet from these artists.
Reference Materials
- Contemporary Artists Reference N 6490 .C6567 2002
- Use nationality index.
- Contemporary Latin American Artists Reference N 6502.5 .C659 1997
- Contemporary Photographers Reference TR 139 .C664
- Use nationality index.
- Contemporary Women Artists Reference N 8354 .C66 1999
- Use nationality index.
- Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photographers Reference TR 642 .E5 2006
Books
To locate books on artists from your country do a subject seach in the Library Catalog.
These are some suggested searches:
| Search | Example
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| architecture [country name] | architecture Brazil
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| art , [country description] | art Brazilian
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| artists [country] | artists, Brazil
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Or if you know the name of an artist do a subject search with the last name first. For example: Kentridge, William.
Databases
- Academic OneFile
- Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.
- Academic Search Complete
- This database offers thousands of full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines.
- Digital Image Archive--Saskia
- Contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections.
- Grove's Dictionary Of Art Online
- Full-text of scholarly articles covering the visual arts from prehistory through the 1990s. Links to images of artistic works and to selected Web sites.
- JSTOR
- JSTOR is an archive of digitized journal articles ranging in date from the 1700's to the early 2000's. These collections span a variety of subjects in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Physical Sciences.
- New York Times and New York Times Historical
- Comprehensive coverage from 1851-present.
Web Resources
Museum sites or other records of exhibitions can be helpful, especially for artists just now becoming well known.
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