Modern Art & Critical Theory Resources

Databases

ARTBibliographies Modern (1974 - present)
Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Indexes 3,762 sources, including abstracts of journal articles, information on book reviews, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Image searching tips

JSTOR (most recent 3-5 years of each journal)
Full-text journal articles consisting of the complete back runs of about 120 journal titles.
More about JSTOR

MLA International Bibliography (1926-present )
Literature, languages, linguistics,and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. More about MLA

Philosopher's Index (1940-present)
Indexes journals and books covering all fields of philosophy including aesthetics.

Project MUSE (most recent 3-5 years of each journal)
Full-text journal articles from over 200 scholarly journals. The database can be searched by individual journal title, selected groupings of sources, or as a whole. More about Project MUSE

Primary Sources

Chicago Tribune, Historical (1849-1985)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Coverage ends in 1985, selected full text of this newspaper is available in LexisNexis Academic from 2002-present.

New York Times, Historical (1851-2003)
Deep backfile for The New York Times. Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Library Instruction Handouts

"Art and Culture in 1930s America" (Professor Miller, Spring 2007)

"High and Low in American Art" (Professor Curley, Fall 2007)

"Photography in America" (Professor Curley, Fall 2007)