For this assignment, I chose to be an art librarian in a
large university offering a PhD in art history who was providing links for a
new professor who specializes in Latin American art of the 19th and 20th
centuries. Below is my letter addressing the resources that the university I
work at has for these courses.
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Dear Mr. Stilinski,
Welcome to Beacon
Hills University
This Digital Archive and Publication Project is an
initiative by the Museum of Fine Arts , Houston
to digitize and provide open access to primary source-materials that relate to
Latin American/Latino art and artists. The database provides access to Latin
American/Latino artists' writings as well as those from artistic movements,
curators, and critics from Central and South America ,
Mexico , the Caribbean, and
the United States .
This two-volume set provides an amazing resource for the
identification and exploration of Latin American and Caribbean artists,
including painters, sculptors, architects, and graphic artists, who were active
during the 19th and 20th centuries. The entries include background information
on the artists, including years of birth and activity, countries of origin,
mini-biographies, and bibliographies. For some artists, the entries also
include exhibition records and lists of collections where the artists' works
can be seen. Our library has this set in our collection.
This bilingual, quarterly magazine publishes articles about
contemporary Latin American art, in addition to established and new Latin
American artists, written by internationally renowned art critics. There are
also exhibition reviews, interviews with curators and collectors, and targeted
articles about museums around the country with Latin American collections.
This online database provides a collection of magazines,
books, catalogs, CDs, and DVDs from the 1950s to the present. Both through the
online database and through direct contact with the archivists, you can explore
the topics of painting, sculpture, design, photography, architecture, and additional
art forms. One limitation is that it is only searchable in Spanish, which may
put off some of your students.
This quarterly, bilingual magazine covers contemporary art
in Latin America . Founded in 1976, this
magazine provides articles about visual art and architecture from Columbia and the rest of the Latin
America . The aim of the magazine is to promote the understanding
and development of the national and international art scenes related to Latin America .
The main ArtNexus Foundation website provides access to multiple
different, up to date resources that relate to Latin American art. The website
has news about current exhibitions, recent publications, seminars, conferences,
contests, awards, and auctions results. It also has a long list of contemporary
Latin American artists with galleries and small biographies, as well as lists
of reviews and bibliographies, many of which are linked on through the website.
The Hispanic American
Periodicals Index (HAPI) & PRISMA
(Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
This index, which is a project by the UCLA's Latin American
Institute, provides over 300,000 journal citations, 170,000 links to full-text
articles, and over 675 journals published since the 1970s from around the world
that deal with Latin American and Caribbean topics. The topics include the arts
as well as political, economic, and social issues. The library also has access
to PRISMA, a more focused index partnered with HAPI that searches just the articles
that deal with the humanities and social sciences.
This handbook, edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library
of Congress, provides access to 1,000s of citations put together by leading
scholars in the field since 1936. The online database can be kind of tricky and
clunky to search, but it does have extensive citations in the field. The online
database, updated weekly, has citations for all the articles, which cover Latin
American topics within the social sciences and the humanities. It is also
available in print form, published every year.
The Sao Paulo Biennial, the second oldest biennial in the
world, has a digital database of their biennial catalogs going back to 1969.
These catalogs, published by the he Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, highlight
international artists from all over the world and the Americas .
This online image database provides 1,000s of digital images
that will work great for your lectures. You can search for a particular artist,
but you can also search for geographical regions, collections, and type of
artwork. For Latin American art specifically, the database breaks down the
countries within Latin America , so you can
search by area and break down image searches by region as well. With the added
collections from the Shared Shelf as well as the Teaching Resources, you will
be able to build visually appealing lectures as well as create your own image
collections for your classes.
This website has many different facets that provide up to
date information about contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean . Their news section is updated almost every day
with information about current exhibitions around the world, links to stories
about Latin American artists' accomplishments, and current events in the field.
They have online galleries of selected Latin American and Caribbean
artists as well as links to outside resources relevant to Latin American art.
They also have a magazine that publishes articles about contemporary Latin
American art.
Although only available in Spanish, this online magazine provides
an impressive and varied stream of topics related to Latin American art, art
that informs this subject area, and the art world as a whole. The website, as
well as their Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pintrest, are updated almost
daily, and the content on each seem to be unique or tailored to the form. It
also provides an online reference source of Latin American artists and artwork,
influential artists in the history of art, important art centers, and
influential art movement. If your students cannot read the Spanish version, it
is translatable through Google.
Please let me know if you have any further questions about
these resources or need any additional help for your classes. In addition, know
that I am available for library instruction that is targeted specifically for
your students as well. Feel free to e-mail me or come see me in the Art
Library, office 315, if you want to set up a session or have any additional
questions.
Have a great day,
Rebekah Scoggins
Instruction Art Librarian
Hale Art Library
I know I discussed 12 resources, but since three came from
the same foundation (ArtNexus), I wanted to make sure I had 10 resources from
different foundations while still providing in depth information for those
three important resources.
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