Library Services: HUM 115: Voice &amp; Identity: Oral Presentation Resources

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This guide is designed to support the course HUM 115: Voice & Identity by leading you to relevant library resources and websites that will help you to complete the oral presentation assignment. The guide also includes tips on citing your sources, and ways to get assistance from the Library.

Artists (Click on the image for more information)

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The library resources below will help you to find scholarly articles about an artist, articles on a theme/movement in relation to the artist, and interviews with artists.

ProQuest Arts & Humanities Database
"This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies."
ProQuest Research Library
Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Gale Academic OneFile
ProQuest US Newsstream
"US Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format"

Use Discovery to search for books and articles available at ACPHS and worldwide. Tip: Do separate searches using the name of the artist, the art movement theme and the theme of the work.

art21
ART21 provides thought-provoking content about contemporary art, by chronicling the artists at work through video and interviews.
Artlex - Art Dictionary
Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art. Includes supporting images, great quotations and cross-references.
artnet
Database with articles and images
The Art Story: Modern Art Movements, Artists, Ideas & Topics
Contains information on artists, movements, and times periods central to modern art.
Artsy
Database of 300,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 40,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the largest online database of contemporary art.
ArtxHistory
An inclusive framework for an open, equitable art history. Search by themes and decades
e-flux journal
e-flux journal features writing by and about contemporary artists. Freely available on the web.
Fatcap
Resource that aims to give an exhaustive snapshot of the street-art culture all over the world.
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Learning
Use the search feature to find biographies of artists and digital image. Includes a glossary of art terms; definitions for themes (or movements) in Modern Art
Open Access Image Libraries
From Apollo International Art Magazine-list of open access image resources
Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media art history textbook.

HUM 115: Voice & Identity

Background Information

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Artists (Click on the image for more information)

Anatsui

Lawrence

Neshat

Sedira

Morimura

Kehinde

Basquiat

Wojnarowicz

Nitegeka

Weiwei

Saar

Mapplethorpe

Guangyi

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