Research Guide - ART 315 - What is Queer Art - Earlham Libraries Home at Earlham College

Reference Sources - Finding Background Information

Course Reserves Link

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Background information about art and artists.
Contains the 34-volume reference set, The Grove Dictionary of Art, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and more.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
The academic alternative to Wikipedia! Pulls articles from a wide range of encyclopedias and dictionaries written by subject experts.
The academic alternative to Wikipedia! Provides access to nearly 500 encyclopedias and dictionaries. Search by concept map. Includes thousands of searchable images.

Wikipedia Article - LGBTQ artists

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog & Beyond This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books, media, and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries. Also searches libraries worldwide through WorldCat.

Tips for research individual artists --

Search the catalog using the artists name as a subject. To get the correct subject, try a keyword search for the artist and then find a title with the correct subject --

Articles

Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, books, and images on the subjects of art, architecture, photography, and the decorative arts.
Full-text coverage of more than 370 periodicals and more than 220 books dating from the present to 1937. Includes a collection of over 63,000 images.

"Art & Architecture", "America History & Life", and "Academic Complete", are all EBSCO databases.
By using the "Select Databases" feature you can search all of them at once.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal articles, books, and primary sources in a wide variety of disciplines.
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Primary Sources

New York Times (Historical Newspaper Archive) This link opens in a new window
Full-text page images of the newspaper, including advertisements, editorial cartoons, etc. Coverage is from 1851 up to the past three years and includes the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times Magazine.
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Gale Primary Sources Archives This link opens in a new window
Primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. Includes magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and papers documenting United States and International perspectives on LGBTQ history, activism, and culture, primarily since 1940.

This collection at Earlham was made possible by an ARPA grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.

Select Scholarly Journals

Special Books about Art

Catalogues Raisonnés
"All the works of an artist". A documented collection of every work of an artist's career. Each work is pictured, with scholarly opinions, provenance, bibliography. A great first place to begin research, but not all artists have catalogues raisonnés.

Robert Indiana : The Monumental Woods

Corpora
Like a catalogue raisonné, only for a single kind of object. Famous corpora are written for pottery, stain glass windows (Corpus Vitrirarum) and Florentine altarpieces (Offner).

The Image of the Black in Western Art

Permanent Holdings Catalogs (of museums)

Detailed catalogs of a period or genre of art in a particular museum. Like a catalogue raisonné, it will contain a collection of scholars' opinions on an object, conservation reports, provenance and literature review. If you know of the location of a work of art, check for permanent holdings catalogs.

Queer Holdings : A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection

Exhibition Catalogs

Detailed catalogs of the works placed on displayed for a temporary exhibit. May include works from multiple institutions. Like permanent holding catalog it may include a collection of scholars' opinion on an object, conservation reports, provenance and literature review.

Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Simeon Solomon : April, 1966, Durlacher Bros., [New York]

Adapted from information created by Duke University Art Librarian Lee Sorenson.