African Art

Course Number:

ARH 320

Instructor:

Kirschke, Amy

Starting Points

HarpWeek

For book reviews. Full text of Harper's Weekly Magazine, 1857-1876.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature

For book reviews.

Articles & eResources

Academic Search Complete

The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887 and is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, providing access to more than 8,600 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, Academic Search™ Complete offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Art Abstracts

Allows one user at a time. Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexes 450 art journals, 1984-date.

Art & Architecture Complete

Offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as for over 230 books.

Art Index Retrospective

Enables users to access over half a century of art literature with ease. In addition to the leading English-language art journals, Art Index Retrospective also covers a host of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Indexes art journals 1929-1984.

HeritageQuest

The Books section provides full-text access to hundreds of local history titles. You may find biographical sketches on your author written during his/her lifetime here.

JSTOR

Full-text for journals in a variety of disciplines back to their beginnings, including 171 art journals and 42 journals of African studies. Typically does not provide the latest 3-5 years.

Project MUSE

Provides full text for current journals in a variety of disciplines.

WorldCat

Union catalog of about 9,000 libraries. Use this database to identify books to request on Interlibrary Loan.

Using the Library Catalog

Click here to search the Library Catalog

Suggested Subject Searching:

Art African
Art African Catalogs
Art African Exhibitions
Art South African 20th Century
Art South African 21st Century
Art, South African -- 20th century -- Catalogs
Art, South African -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
Rock Paintings -- Africa

Books & Library Materials

African Material Culture (eBook)

Citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews on literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1926-.

Websites

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, 1975-.

Art History Resources on the Web: Art in Africa

For book reviews. Full-image online access for the NYT back to 1851.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

For book reviews.

Primary Sources

ARTstor Digital Library

To access ARTstor Digital Library, click on the "Enter Here" link on the upper-right corner of the ARTstor homepage linked above. Registered users can download individual images from the ARTstor Digital Library so remember to register for a free user account. The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

CAMIO - Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

Contact Librarian

Melissa Raymer

raymerm [at] uncw [dot] edu

962-4234

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