Spence School Library: 2021 Fall Elective: Identities in American Art: BOOKS & ARTICLES

Print and Ebooks

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A wide selection of authoritative, scholarly electronic books available through a easy to use platform with a variety of online and offline reading options.

Spence School Print Collection
Search the Spence School Library's print collection for books! If you need help locating a book please ask Ms. Kane

Internet Archive
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. This resource can be difficult to search. Please see Ms. Kane if you need any assistance.
MOMA Exhibition History
"The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history—from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists."
Met Publications
Pieces written for the Met by art historians and curators. You can limit your search by thematic category, collection, and format (limit to read online).
Guggenheim Library Collection Page
"The Guggenheim Museum Library contains published resources that reflect and inform museum collections and exhibitions, with particular focus on modern and contemporary art, architecture, and photography."
Whitney Museum of American Art Library Collection Page
"The Museum's history of support for American artists is demonstrated in the exhibition publications it produces along with other collection-related catalogs since its founding in 1930."

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Scholarly Journal Articles

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to full-text journal articles in the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. While you won’t find current journal articles, you will find articles dating from 3-5 years ago to many decades ago.
Proquest Comprehensive This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive: cross-search all our ProQuest databases at once. It contains access to historical and current newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles. Subject Areas: Arts & Humanities, Business, General Research, Health Sciences & Nursing, Literature, News & Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile contains peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. Millions of articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text format.
NOVELNY databases are provided free to the public by the New York State Library. The databases can only be accessed within the geographical boundaries of New York State. When logging in you will see a NOVELNY screen requesting your location information. If you are in New York State, you can proceed to the database by selecting the "Use My Location" button or waiting five seconds.

The links below will take you to the NYPL library website. To use the databases you need a NYPL library card.

Project Muse: Provides full-text access to over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
ARTbibliographies Modern: Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
The New Yorker Digital Archive: The entire run of the New Yorker, in full text and full color, from 1925-present.
LIFE Magazine Archive: The entire run from 1936.