ART 331: Modern Art History

This course includes the study of the sequence of major art styles from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s; topics include cultural and technical influences on art production, analysis of individual styles and art works, examination of aesthetic criteria, and recognition of stylistic characteristics.

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The Thrift Library site is your stop for all of the resources you could need, and you can use these key features to navigate to a variety of sources through the appropriate databases, and catalog feature which routes to all books held in-house, a myriad of resources pulled from partner databases, and the resources available through inter-library loan.

The library catalog helps users to find physical copies of books that are either held in-house at Thrift Library, or can be mailed from other libraries in a network in order to be picked up at Thrift for no charge to you. 

The databases tab of the Thrift Library website includes a feature that filters databases by category, so that users can find all of the databases that are grouped specifically for the course or topic that is relevant to their project. For this course, the relevant groupings would be those of "art," "history," and "interdisciplinary."

• ABC-CLIO E-Books
  • 150 e-books on all topics.
• Academic Search Ultimate
  • Full-text journal articles in social sciences, humanities, multicultural studies, education, and more. (EBSCO)
• African-American History
  • Explore 500 years of African-American History and Culture. (Infobase)
• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection
  • Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction-- 1684 to 1912. Includes 8,000 titles. (EBSCO)
• Associates Programs Source
  • More than 2,200 full-text journals, as well as 350 full-text books. (EBSCO)
• Audiobooks EBSCOhost
  • EBSCO offers a premium collection of high-quality audiobook titles, giving users 24/7 access to audiobooks that can be downloaded via Android or Apple devices. Click "Search" to see available titles.
• Biography
  • Nearly a million biographical entries spanning throughout history and geography. (Gale In Context)
• Britannica
  • Academic Online Edition
    • A comprehensive reference resource used to access Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools. This is a great place to find the introductory materials needed to begin a research project.
  • Library Reference Center
    • A reference resource that includes access to Britannica Reference Center for older students and adults.
• Cambridge Core
  • Contains hundreds of scholarly e-books, but is particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences. Users can limit their searches to library-owned content or use the platform as an index to identify materials available through interlibrary loan. (Cambridge University Press)
• Credo Reference
  • A comprehensive reference resource that includes images, audio files, videos, and more than 600 full-text reference books on most major subject areas. (Infobase)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  • This database contains the full test of almost 2,000 open access scientific and scholarly journals on all topics.
• Duke E-Books Scholarly Collection
  • A site for reading, searching, and sharing over 3,000 Duke University Press books online, that is particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
• E-Book Central
  • This resource hosts 250,000 titles on various topics. Search across the complete word-by-word content of every book. Copy and paste, email, cite, take notes, or share your research within ProQuest E-Book Central.
• Gale E-Books
  • Gale E-Books (formerly GVRL) contains over 3,500 volumes of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• E-Books on EBSCOhost
  • Around 200,000 e-books on all topics.
• Films on Demand
  • A web-based digital video delivery that offers 40,000 high quality videos and multimedia academic content.
• History Reference eBook Collection
• History Reference Source
  • Features 1,990 full-text reference books designed for secondary schools, public libraries, and undergraduate research plus full text to 150 history periodicals. Further, the database contains nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 37,400 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical vidoe. (EBSCO)
• IGI Global
  • IGI Global disseminates vetted quality content within 11 core subject areas, including business and management; computer science and information technology; education; environment and agriculture; government and law; library and information science; media and communications; medicine and healthcare; science and engineering; security and forensics; as well as social sciences and the humanities.
• Jewish Studies Source
  • Covers hundred of full text periodicals on Jewish Studies, including 1,600 biographies. (EBSCO)
• JSTOR
  • JSTOR is a digital library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. As of July 2024, includes Artstor: More than 2.5 million digital images - painting, sculpture, photographs, buildings, decorative arts, fashion, landscape, graphic design, architectural drawings, manuscripts, floor plans, and much more.
• Libby
  • Access a wide range of both academic and recreational e-books and audiobooks purchased by Anderson University and other PASCAL institutions.
• Liebert Online
  • Fifty-five authoritative journals, all full-text searchable and linked to external bibliographic databases. Topics include: medicine, engineering/informatics, law, psychology, and public health/policy.
• MasterFILE Premier
  • MasterFILE Premier contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including: business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. It also includes an extensive image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, and flags. (EBSCO)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
  • The historical English dictionary: an unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world. The OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations
  • Advanced research and scholarship. Theses and dissertations, free to find, free to use.
• Open Dissertations/American Doctoral Dissertations
  • Open access dissertations and theses from 1955 to present. (EBSCO)
• Primary Search Reference E-Book Collection
• Project MUSE
  • Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. All book content on MUSE is presented DRM-free chapter-level PDFs, with unlimited simultaneous usage, unlimited downloading, and unlimited printing.
• SAGE
  • Journals
    • Search and browse more than a thousand journals across a range of disciplines.
  • Knowledge
    • An e-book platform for topics across the social sciences
  • Research Methods
    • Supports research at all levels by providing material and tools to guide users through every step of the research process. Provides access to e-books, datasets, podcasts, and video. Available tools include a project planner, methods map, and stats test.
• Salem E-Books
  • Over 400 reference books on careers, health, history, literature, and science.
• Science Reference E-Book Collection
• Taylor & Francis E-Books
  • A collection of e-books on all topics. Users have access only to unlocked titles, as indicated by the lock icon.
• TOPICsearch
  • Contains full text of over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. (EBSCO)

• British Museum Publications
  • The British Museum produces a range of publications that showcase the scope and depth of research it undertakes.
• Getty Publications Virtual Library
  • More than 300 books to read and download for free.
• Getty Research Portal
  • A free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions.
• Guggenheim Museum Internet Archive
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's internet archive collection of books and catalogs documenting its exhibitions and collections.
• MetPublications
  • Explore over 1,700 titles published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including books, museum guides, and periodicals from the last six decades.
• National Gallery of Art
  • Discover beautiful exhibition publications, collection highlights, in-depth research, and more.

If you're looking for other resources but can't seem to find what you need here, feel free to review other research guides by Thrift Library related topics:

• Art History
• History (General)
• Music History

Turabian, Kate L., Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T. Fitzgerald. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Ninth Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

LOC Call Number: LB2369 .T8 2018

Use the Turabian manual as a guide for Chicago/Turabian style.

Use the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide as an online resource to develop notes and bibliography for your research.

The Turabian Quick Guide provides an online resource as a guide for using Chicago/Turabian style.

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

• Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
• Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.)
• Search your entire library
• Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.