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Caribbean Art Research Guide
Books: Searching SOPHIA and WorldCat | Reference
Books | Other Libraries
Electronic Resources: Periodical Databases | Reference
Databases | Full-text Journals
Books
Searching SOPHIA
McCain Library
has some books that include information on Caribbean
art.
To find them, search SOPHIA.
Try a keyword
search using the following terms:
- Caribbean and art*
- West Indies and art*
- Antilles and art*
- Cuba and art*
Another strategy: Search the GALILEO
database WorldCat  .
Not only will this database show relevant books that can be used
at other local libraries or borrowed through Interlibrary
Loan,
it will also match titles in McCain Library that may not have come
up via SOPHIA keyword searching.
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Reference Books
Dictionary of Art edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries,
1996.
Ref. N31 .D56 1996 vols. 1 – 34.
Volume 5 includes a large section on Caribbean Islands. Use the
index for additional terms (e.g. Antilles, Lesser) or for entries
on individual artists. Individual countries (e.g. Cuba, Haiti)
often have entries.
Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill 1959, 1987
Ref. N31 .E4833 vols. 1 – 17.
Use the index (vol. 15) to find entries
on individual countries.
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean edited
by Simon Collier, Thomas E. Skidmore and Harold Blakemore.Cambridge
[England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Ref. F1406 .C36 1992
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Other Libraries
Search the catalogs
of other local libraries for additional titles.
Non-reference titles can be borrowed via Interlibrary
Loan, or,
you can travel to these libraries to use books there or to check
them out.
Examples of books at Emory General Library:
- Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art edited
by Jane Turner
New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2000.
- Fifty years - fifty artists : 1950-2000,
the School of Visual Arts edited by Petrine Archer-Straw.
Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers in association with
The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, 2000.
- Caribbean art by Veerle Poupeye.
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1998.
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Electronic Resources
Databases – Periodical Indexes
- Art
Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
Index to articles and reproductions in international art publications.
- American
Humanities Index
Index to creative, critical, and scholarly English language literary
journals and magazines.
- Humanities
Abstracts
Citations and abstracts to articles in both general-interest periodicals
and periodicals in the humanities, including the fine arts.
- Ethnic
NewsWatch
Full-text collection of newspaper, magazine and journal articles from
the ethnic, minority and native presses.
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Databases – Reference
- Grove
Dictionary of Art (full-text)
Encyclopedic resource covering art history and artists worldwide. Entry on
the Caribbean; individual countries in the region also included. Entries
are lengthy and include
bibliographies.
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Full-text Journals
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