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FA 199A: Methods and Approaches in the History of Art
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FA 199A: Methods and Approaches in the History of Art
Course guide developed for Professor Jonathan Unglaub by Lisa Zeidenberg, Creative Arts Librarian. Originally created by Darwin Scott.
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I: Finding symbols & subjects
II: Classical & mythological
III: Judeo-Christian
IV: Non-Western
V: Thematic Iconography
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African art
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Diverse perspectives
African Diaspora/African American
Google Arts & Culture: Online exhibitions
art21 videos
Selected print books on African American art
The Image of the Black in Western Art
Museum collections
Asian Diaspora/Asian American
Latin American/Latinx/Chicanx
Native American
Video editing tools
Digital magazine
Arts.Black
Online journal publishes contemporary art criticism from Black perspectives; includes essays, interviews, and reviews.
E-book
What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South
by
Dell Upton
Publication Date: 2015-11-24
Google Arts & Culture: Online exhibitions
Questioning the Canon -- The Baltimore Museum of Art
Works by contemporary African American artists
The Usable Past: Reflections on American History 2000–2017, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"Exhibition of prints and drawings from the 21st century explores how artists re-create the present through their investigations of historical people, places, and events."
art21 videos
Links to groups of videos arranged thematically:
Portraying the Black American Experience
Race in America
Selected print books on African American art
Going There: Black Visual Satire
by
Richard J. Powell
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N6538.N5 P69 2020
Horace Pippin, American Modern
by
Anne Monahan
Call Number: Main Library Stacks ND237.P65 M65 2020
To Describe a Life: Essays at the Intersection of Art and Race Terror
by
Darby English
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N6538.N5 E65 2019
The Image of the Black in Western Art
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: from the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators
by
Ladislas Bugner (Contribution by); David Bindman (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor); Karen C. C. Dalton (Associate Editor); Hugh Honour (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N8232 .I4613 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV: from the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and White Myths
by
Karen C. C. Dalton (Associate Editor); Hugh Honour (Contribution by); Victor Stoichita (Contribution by); Paul H. D. Kaplan (Contribution by); Ladislas Bugner (Contribution by); David Bindman (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N8232 .I4613 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa
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David Bindman (Editor); Tanya Sheehan (Contribution by); Christian Weikop (Contribution by); Deborah Willis (Contribution by); Henry Louis Gates; Karen C. C. Dalton; Dawn Ades; Petrine Archer-Shaw (Contribution by); Suzanne Blier (Contribution by); Elizabeth Edwards (Contribution by); Vera Grant (Contribution by); Esther Schreuder (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N8232 .I4613 2010
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
by
David Bindman; Henry Louis Gates; Karen C. C. Dalton; Jacqueline Francis; Richard J. Powell; Deborah Willis (Contribution by); Adrienne L. Childs (Contribution by); Ruth Fine (Contribution by); Kobena Mercer (Contribution by)
Call Number: Main Library Stacks N8232 .I4613 2010
Museum collections
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts, Brooklyn, NY
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