CCFA 202 - Arts and Cultures of the Slave South
FAL web page: www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/
| Search strategies: | sculpture, art, painting, culture
slavery, planter/plantation, foodways, Black, African American Nineteenth, Charleston, south/southern, confederacy |
| Keyword southern states and slavery and culture
Subject Slavery - Southern States - History - 19th century |
Databases
ARTbibliographies Modern includes abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Subjects covered include 20th century art history and criticism, design, photography (from 1839), architecture, and visual culture.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers articles and book reviews in architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history in journals from many countries. General coverage begins in the 1930s, but some journals are indexed back to the the 1860s. Many citations include abstracts.
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) covers European and American art from late antiquity (ca. 300 AD) to the present and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.
| Sample Advanced Search: | KEYWORD art | AND KEYWORD slavery
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Art Index indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Index indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
| keyword: | sculpture and african american and nineteenth |
Smithsonian Institution Archives and Inventories includes the Art Inventories which provide information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Information is compiled from a variety of sources, including published catalogues, collection checklists, reports from collectors, journals and magazines, and preservation inventories.
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| Artist | Lewis, Edmonia |
America History and Life covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present and has almost 400,000 citations from 2,000 key English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
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subject time period |
culture
plantations 1800H (use the browse list) |
American Memory Project: Library of Congress includes primary source documents and archives for American history and culture from the Library of Congress. Includes printed text, collections of photographs, and some scanned manuscripts on topics such as African-American pamphlets, Civil War photographs, women's suffrage documents, etc. Additional collections will be added.
HarpWeek covers the 56 years of Harper’s Weekly and provides a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Online can find full text of articles from the New York Times (1851-1999), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1995), and the Washington Post (1877-1987).
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 can find articles from 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing in America between 1740 and 1900.
JStor searches the full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.
Web Sites
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
The Charleston Museum
http://www.charlestonmuseum.org/topic.asp?id=1
Gibbes Museum of Art
http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/
Paul R. Jones Collection
http://www.museums.udel.edu/jones/jones-pages/digital-jones.html
Maryland Historical Society
http://www.mdhs.org/
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
Making of America
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu
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