ART 157: Introduction to Latin American Visual Culture

Citing Information Tutorial

Images of Art: Locating & Citing

Chicago Manual of Style [Z253 .U69 2003 Art Reference]

Heather Gendron, Art Librarian
Phone: 919-962-1061

Sloane Art Library
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Latin American & Iberian Resources (at UNC)

Introduction to Library Research

Finding Primary Source Documents

Call Numbers

N 6502.5 Latin American art, general

E 51-73 Pre-Columbian America (pre-1492)

F 1219 Latin and Spanish America

Locate Articles 

Quick Guide - How to Locate Articles (pdf)

The library subscribes to numerous databases that will help you locate articles related to the research you will be conducting for this course. Search the E-Research Tools page on the library website for subject areas related to your topic. From there, select a database that seems most relevant. Here are a few suggestions:

Cultural Studies
Ethnic Studies
Latin American Studies
Women's Studies

Art Full Text

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

Anthropology Plus Provides indexing for the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; also for ethnology, archaeology, folklore and material culture.

Bibliografia Mesoamericana Provides a comprehensive and continually updated bibliographic dataset of the published literature pertaining to the anthropology of Mesoamerica. Content includes archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, art history, linguistics, physical anthropology, and other related disciplines.

HAPI, Hispanic American Periodicals Index Provides periodicals indexing for Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the US-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the US.

JSTOR An archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.

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Biographical Info

Looking for an artist to write about? Try one of these resources:

Oxford Art Online

Biographical Sources

Images & Archives

CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online

Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino & Latin American Artists (Smithsonian, Archives of American Art)

Latin American Collection of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art

A guide to Locating & Citing Images

E-Encyclopedias

Oxford Art Online
An encyclopedia of art, with general introductions to a variety of topics related to this course.

Catholic Encyclopedia

Art Museum Publications (local)

Locate art museum publications in the library catalog by doing an author search using the museum's name. For instance, author = ackland art museum.

Ackland Art Museum

Duke University Museum of Art

Nasher Art Museum

North Carolina Museum of Art

NCCU Art Museum

E-Maps

The Americas (historical)

David Rumsey Collection - Thousands of Historical Maps and Atlases