Primary Sources - Art Guide

Speeches, letters, journals, diaries, etc. of an individual may be found by looking for the name of that person as an author.  For example, look at the following record from the Library Catalog:
 

Author            Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.   Title              Complete poems and selected letters of Michelangelo / translated,                        with foreword and notes, by Creighton Gilbert.   Published       Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1980.   LOCATION CALL NUMBER STATUS TRUMAN General Collection PQ 4615 B6 A23 1980 DUE 09-06-01  Description      317 p.

The word sources or documents or documentary usually occurs on records for anthologies or
collections of primary source material.  Use those words in a keyword search to bring up
collections of documents.
                        Example:  art and history and (sources or document*)
 

Num	Mark	KEYWORDS	Entries 75 Found
1		American art, 1700-1960; sources and documents	1
2		The art of Rome, c.753 B.C.-A.D. 337:  sources and documents	1
3		The art of the Byzantine Empire, 312-1453; sources and documen	1
4		Flight out of time: a Dada diary / by Hugo Ball	1
5		From the classicists to the impressionists; art and architecture	1
6		Giotto: the Arena Chapel frescoes / edited by James H. Stubb	1
7	x	Gothic art 1140 - c.1450; sources and documents by Teresa G	1
8		Guide to British historical manuscripts in the Huntington Library	1
9		History and its images: art and the interpretation of the p	1

   

EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS is a microfilm collection of books published in England or in the
English language between 1475 and 1700.  There are some very interesting old volumes in this
collection.  To search in this collection specifically, add early English books to your keyword
search in the Library Catalog.
                        Example:  early english books and (color or colour)
 

Author          Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691  Title              Experiments and considerations touching colours <microform>:                      First occasionally written among some other essays to a friend and                      now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental                      history of colours.  Published       London:  Printed for Henry Herringman, 1670.

EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS is a microfiche collection of books published in the U.S. in
the 17th and 18th centuries.  To search this collection specifically, add early american imprints to your keyword search.
                        Example: painting and early american imprints

ARTISTS ON ART FROM THE XIV TO THE XX CENTURY
Reference N 7452 G64 1958

DOCUMENTS OF 20th CENTURY ART is a collection of volumes giving primary sources
relating to 20th century art.  In the Library Catalog, a search on this title will find a list of the books in the
series.  Some of the authors included are: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Arp, Umbro Apollonio,
Daniel Kahnweiler, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Pablo Picasso.

LIVES OF THE ARTISTS was written by Vasari (1511-1574)
Reference N 6922 V2213 1991

TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARTISTS ON ART: AN INDEX TO WRITINGS, STATEMENTS AND INTERVIEWS BY ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, AND DESIGNERS, edited by Jack Robertson.  Located in Reference NX 456 R59 1996

Also check  the MOBIUS central catalog and WorldCat on FirstSearch for books that are
not in our library.

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