AH112: Introduction to Art History (Tucker)
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This is the course guide for AH112, Introduction to Art History, taught blocks 1 and 2 2009 by Rebecca Tucker. It covers:
Research sources (covered last block)
Use TIGER to find books (and videos and other things you can borrow) here at CC. Use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog to get books from other Colorado libraries.
The Grove Dictionary Of Art Online is a very good resource for getting an overview of an artist, school, or period. It also has bibliographies to lead you to more in-depth resources and links to images.
Art Abstracts is our general-purpose art index covering art history journals. The Bibliography Of The History Of Art is an equally important index, that also includes citations for books and chapters of books (look those up in TIGER" to see if we own them).
Citation style
Professor Tucker asks for endnotes in the Chicago/Turabian documentation style. You will find a good online guide to Chicago/Turabian on the site of the UW-Madison Writing Center. We have plenty of copies of Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers in the library if that site doesn’t answer your question.
Librarians at the reference desk and tutors at the CC Writing Center are happy to help with citation matters.
Image sources
ARTstor is an excellent source for images from the nineteenth century and earlier. Modern art is less well-represented due to copyright obstacles. You can’t get full-size zoomable images, but you can get images that are 1,024 pixels on the long side, which should be good for most of your applications. You can also zoom in to an image on ARTstor and download a 1,024-pixel-wide image of the detail, which is nice. Use the little disk icon at the bottom of the image window to save the image to disk.
The Grove Dictionary Of Art Online is another good source for images, mostly via the “Image Links” in the navigation bar near the top of the screen. These links take you mostly to museum sites. I hit the occasional dead link in these lists.
The Colorado College Art History Image Database is another good source of images. Note that it also catalogs slides in the collection that are not available as online images.
There are good free online sources of art images, too, including:
Lastly, don’t forget that you can scan images from books or other printed sources in the CAT lab, which is in the Learning Commons on the first floor of Tutt Library.