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Contemporary
VI. Contemporary
Databases:
FAL web page: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/index.html - Databases
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern (late 19th century) and contemporary art, including photography since its invention. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
FAL Contemporary Art Resources
(BHA) Bibliography of the History of Art
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) and Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Web Resources:
Up-to date information on contemporary artists, galleries, exhibitions, and future shows.
Includes information on exhibitions from over 1,300 galleries, as well as artists biographies and news.
The Artfact Pro Internet is a professional research instrument with over 4 million unedited public auction sales results compiled from hundreds of participating auction houses worldwide.
"A Gathering place for resources in art and architecture." Includes links to e-exhibitions and artists' projects.
"...an online platform for the global new media art community."
Museum Web Sites:
National Museum of Women in the Arts
NY Public Library Picture Collection
Print Resources:
A selective sampling of important series for this period:
African American Architects (FA-REF NA736 .A47 2004)
Architecture theory since 1968 (FA-REF NA680 .A728 1998)
Contemporary Latin American Artists (FA-REF E98.A7S8 1998)
Dictionnaire de L'Art Moderne Contemporain (FA-REF N6485.2 .D53 2002)
Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture (FA-REF NA680 .E495 2004 v.1-3)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century (FA-REF N6503 .N67 1995)
Topics:
Choose one and search for citations on the subject in the indexes you deem appropriate. Note a few good articles or citations you found pertinent to the topic and where you found them.
Environmental art
Contemporary American Indian women sculptors
Tate Modern Collection
Work of Sarah Moon
Recent books on Jacob Lawrence
Installations of Abramovic
Kitsch as an art form
Work of Louise Nevelson in Chicago
Recent show of Latino artists in New York
European exhibitions of Richard Long
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