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Frick Fine Arts Library FRICK FINE ARTS LIBRARY ART HISTORY: LOCATING ART HISTORICAL IMAGES Library Guide Series, No. 19 “Qui scit ubi scientis sit, ille est proximus habenti.” -- Brunetiere* Before Beginning Research FFAL hours: M-H, 9-9; F, 9-5; Sa-Su, Noon – 5 Policies: Food and drink may only be consumed in the building’s cloister and not in the library. Personal Reserve: Undergraduate students may, if working on a class term paper, ask that books be checked out to the “Personal Reserve” area where they will be placed under your name while working on your paper. The materials may not leave the library. Requesting Items: All ULS libraries allow you to request an item that is in the ULS Storage Facility at no charge by using the Requests Tab in Pitt Cat. Items that are not in the Pitt library system may also be requested from another library that owns them via the Requests tab in Pitt Cat. There is a $5.00 fee for journal articles using this service, but books are free of charge. Photocopying and Printing: There are two photocopiers and one printer in the FFAL Reference Room. One photocopier accepts cash (15 cents per copy) and both are equipped with a reader for the Pitt ID debit card (10 cents per copy). Funds may be added to the cards at a machine in Hillman Library by using cash or a major credit card; or by calling the Panther Central office (412-648-1100) or visiting Panther Central in the lobby of Litchfield Towers and using cash or a major credit card. The printers in ULS libraries also accept the Pitt ID debit card. NOTE: One may also pay for library fees and fines with the Pitt ID debit card or a major credit card. Retrieving Materials in the FFAL: Journals and books will be retrieved for you by student assistants in the Reading Room of the FFAL. Please submit to them a complete citation for the items you need (including complete call number). Use My Account Tab in Pitt Cat to keep track of requests made, know what fees may have accrued in your account, and renew books yourself. Navigating the ULS Digital Library www.library.pitt.edu --1-- Login: Pitt User Name and Password ULS Digital Library includes over 400 databases that are available for your use with your Pitt User Name and Password 24/7 from dorm, office, or home. Connecting From Home or Dorm Room You can connect from home to the ULS Digital Library and search the online databases to which it subscribes by using a web- based service called SSL VPN. Instructions on doing this are provided at a link in the NEWS section of the ULS Digital Library home page. Click on “Accessing Library Resources from Off Campus.” No special software is required. If you have problems connecting with SSL VPN, please contact Pitt’s Technology Department help line at 412-624-HELP (4357) for assistance. NOTE: If you do not connect to SSL-VPN, you will not be able to access any databases to which the ULS subscribes! Part of the fees you pay to attend Pitt pays for the databases, so you will want to put them to good use during your research projects. PittCat, the ULS Online Catalog Books published on individual artists are a ready source of images. Depending on the use of an image, often the least complex way to locate images is to check for books, exhibition catalogs, oeuvre catalogs, catalogues raisonnés and corpora by using Pitt Cat, the ULS online catalog. Sample searches are illustrated below. To locate exhibition catalogs on individual artists, execute a SUBJECT HEADING SEARCH in Pitt Cat like the following: Carravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Exhibitions Sherman Cindy Exhibitions Gogh Vincent Van Exhibitions Stieglitz Alfred Exhibitions Okeeffe Georgia Exhibitions Warhol Andy Exhibitions Picasso Pablo Exhibitions Walker Kara Exhibitions Catalogues Raisonnés attempt to document the entirety of or a complete period of an artist’s work or oeuvre. Detailed information is supplied for each object in the artist’s works (e.g., exhibition history, provenance, scholarly literature that discusses the work, unusual or pertinent facts, and a critical or analytical account of the art. Execute a subject heading search to locate these publications on individual artists. Picasso Pablo Catalogues Raisonnés Warhol Andy Catalogues Raisonnés Warhol Andy Prints Catalogues Raisonnés Note, however, that when an artist has had a lengthy and prolific career and held the public interest, different kinds of publications that are unique to the field of art history are issued. Try searching the artist’s name as a subject heading using the following sub-divisions Oeuvre Catalogs also document the entirety of an artist’s works. The subject heading PICASSO PABLO CATALOGS leads to such publications. Examples follow: Carnets: catalogue des dessins. Par Britte Léal. 2 vols. Frick – NC248/P5L4/1996 --2-- Musée Picasso, Paris: Catalogue of the Collection. (1986+) Frick – N6853/P5A4/1986b Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective. Ed. by William Rubin (1980). Frick – ND553/P586/R9 Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form: Graphic Works, 1895-1972. Ed. by Roland Doschka. (2000) – iNC248/P5A4/2000 Picasso: The Late Works. Essay by Jeffrey Hoffeld (1988) – Frick – NC248/P5A4/1988 Picasso Museum, Paris: The Masterpieces. By Marie-Laure Bernadac (1991) – Frick – N6853/P5A4/1991c Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973: The Picasso Project. Dir. by Herschel Chipp and Alan Wofsy (1995+) – iND553/P5A4/1995 To locate corpora published within the discipline of art history, execute a subject heading search using the LC subject Heading CORPORA. Corpora are multivolume multilingual works providing extensive data on a specific subject and published over an extended period of time. Each corpus may have complete documentation on the subject accompanied by extensive bibliographies and archival material. One may also try a title search in Pitt Cat for “Corpus of,” although that search will miss titles that do not begin with those two words. Please also consult the following item which lists major corpora on illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, churches and drawings. Note that it may be necessary to visit other libraries to consult some corpora. Examples of this sort of publication in the Frick Fine Arts Library are listed below. Corpus basilicarum christianarum Romae (5 vols.) – Frick – iNA1120/A1K9 Includes all the early churches in Rome that have either been preserved or are known through existing illustrations. Corpus della scultura altomedieval (17 vols.) Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number for each volume. Covers pre-Romanesque sculpture in Italy; organized by region. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450 (3 vols.) – Frick – iNC1150/C82 Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (6 vols.) – Frick – NB1209/G7/C67/1984 Organized by county. A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini (2 vols.) – Frick – iNK6352/H64c A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings (2 vols.) – Frick – iND653/R385/C6/1982 A Corpus of Spanish Drawings (4 vols.) – Frick – iNC285/A59 Covers drawings from 1400-1800 in collections worldwide. Organized by region within Spain and period. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard – Frick – ND673/R9/C63 --3-- Categorizes the work of Peter Paul Rubens by specific series, subjects and commissions. Corpus signorum Imperii Romani (3 vols.) – Hillman – NB115/C65 Organized by country. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorm – Frick – iNK4640/C6+ Ancient vases, organized by country, then city, and museum or collection Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi – Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume. Medieval stained glass, organized by country, then region or monument. Gothic Sculpture in America – Frick – NB180/G6/1989 Offner, Richard. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting – Frick – iND621/F7/O37 This monumental work on Florentine painting from its origins to the 15th century is supplemented by new material compiled by new editors. Primitifs flamands (4 vols.) – Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume. Covers 15th and 16th century Flemish painting, including detailed descriptions of each work; sections covering work by known artists and also work by unknowns. Primitifs flamands 1. Corpus de la peinture de anciens Pays (15 vols.) – Frick - ND665/P95 Primitfs flamands II. Repertoire des peintures flamandes du quinzieme siecle (4 vols.) – Frick - Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume. Primitifs flamands III. Contributions a l’etude des primtifs flamands (7 vols.) – Frick – ND665/P95c Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections (2 vols.) – Frick – NB175/C13 Project sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art. Keyword Searching in Pitt Cat If you are searching for a catalog of a collection shown in a museum that is effusive in nature and you do not recall the title of the show, executing a keyword search in the best way to retrieve it. That function of the online catalog will allow you to retrieve words used in the chapter or section titles of the catalog. Click the KEYWORD tab in Pitt Cat and try different combinations of search terms. Some examples are listed below. Picasso [Subject] AND Exhibition This search currently results in 98 exhibition catalogs for shows of Picasso’s works. To locate exhibition catalogs published by an individual museum, execute a keyword search in Pitt Cat like the following: --4-- New Museum of Contemporary Art [as a phrase] AND Exhibition This search currently results in 31 exhibition catalogs for shows at that museum To locate an item knowing only a few words of the title, try something like the following: On the first search line, type Japanese On the second search line, type Chinese On the third search line, type Korean art, and choose AS A PHRASE (for that line only) The result is: Cross Currents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections (Japan Society, 1999) – Frick – N7336/C76/1999 Subject Heading Searching in Pitt Cat Library of Congress Subject Headings must be used in the format indicated below to conduct subject heading searching (vs.
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