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Art, Emotion and Cognition, UMKC
Instructor Cristina Albu
August 28, 2013
Presented by Amelia Nelson, Public Services Librarian
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library

2. Research Strategy
General
Resources
Books
Articles and
More
What else is
out there?
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3. Resources - Context
 Context
 Surveys
 Oxford Art Online
 Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline
of Art History
 Guides to techniques and
materials
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4. Resources - Context
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•Biography
•Group Exhibitions
•Solo Exhibitions
•Museum & Gallery
Holdings
•Auction Records
•Bibliography

5. Books
 Surveys
 Exhibition Catalogs
 Artist Monographs
 Specific exhibition
 Series of work
 Overview
 Highlights
 Retrospectives
 Catalogues R s
 Comprehensive
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Date
Publisher
Author
Museum

6. Searching - LibraryOneSearch - Books & More
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7. Searching -
Refine My Results
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8. Searching -
Using Refine My Results
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9. Journals
 Subscriptions to over 600
print magazines and journals
 Access to thousands more
through subscription
databases
 Jstor
 ART bibliographies Modern (1960 –
present)
 Art Abstracts (1984 – present)
 Art Index (1929 – 1984)
 Articlefirst (1960 – present)
 BHA (Bibliography of the History of
Art)
 International Bibliography of Art
 Art Price Databases (Auction Sales)
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Criticism
Exhibition Reviews
Interviews
Current projects and work
New scholarship
Focused research

10. Expanding your Searching – LibraryOneSearch
Spencer Collection Articles
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11. Art and Art History Databases
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Spencer Art
Reference Only
Auction / Art Price
databases
International
Bibliography of Art
(2007 – present)
CAMIO
Spencer Art
Reference & UMKC
ArchivesGrid
ARTbibliographies
Modern (1960 – present)
Art Abstracts (1984 –
present)
Art Index (1929 – 1984)
Articlefirst (1960 –
present)
BHA (1975 – 2007)
CAMIO
Jstor (1665 – present)
Oxford Art Online
WorldCat
UMKC Only
Academic Search
Complete
Art Full Text (1984
present)
Avery Index to
Architectural
Periodicals (1934 –
present)
FRANCIS (1984 –
present)
Many multi-disciplinary
Many science databases
Project Muse

12. Science Databases - UMKC
 Science Direct
 JSTOR
 Project Muse
 American Periodicals Series (Collection 1)
 Academic Search Complete
 Business Source Premier
 Consumer Health Complete
 Environment Complete
 Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
 MAS Ultra – School Edition
 MasterFILE Premiers
 Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
 Science Reference Center
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13. Citation Article
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Beveridge, Patrick. 2000.
"Color Perception and the
Art of James Turrell".
Leonardo. 33, no. 4: 305-
313.
Print
Online

14. Citation Article
Online
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Beveridge, Patrick. 2000.
"Color Perception and the
Art of James Turrell".
Leonardo. 33, no. 4: 305-
313.
UMKC electronic article access

15. Full Text Articles
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16. Citation Article
Print
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Spencer or UMKC Library Catalog – see what
the holdings are
UMKC – expand your search to MERLIN, then
MOBIUS
UMKC – ILL

17. Expanding your Search - LibraryOneSearch
Databases
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18. Citations – Where would you start?
 D. Freedberg and V. Gallese, “Motion, Emotion and
Empathy in Artist Experience,” Trends in Cognitive Science
(2007): 197-203.
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19. Images
 Camio
High quality images
from museum
collections around
the world
 Internet Archive
 Google Image
 YouTube
 Flicker
 Vimeo
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Aten Reign, June
21–September
25, 2013
Guggenheim
rotunda

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•Museum and Gallery
Collections
•Inventories
•Archives
•Correspondences
•Diaries
•Memoirs
•Gallery information
•Artist Files

21. Expanding your Search
 Europeana: European
Cultural Content
http://www.europeana.eu/p
ortal/
 Digital Public Library of
America
http://dp.la/
 Internet Archive
http://archive.org/
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22. Expanding your Search
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23. Expanding your Search
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24. ArchiveGrid
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25. Evaluating Sources on the Web
 Accuracy
 Currency
 Authority
 Objectivity
 Audience
 User interface
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Artists websites
Artist statements
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Contact information

26. Evaluation of web sources
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The Iraq War: Wikipedia Historiography,
2004-2009
Documents the 12,000 changes made to the Wikipedia article on the Iraq
War
Booktwo.org, On Wikipedia,
Cultural Patrimony, and
Historiography
James Bridle
September 6, 2010
http://booktwo.org/notebook/
wikipedia-historiography/

27. Wikipedia
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28. Evaluating Primary Sources on the Web
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29. Other Tools
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30. Citation Timesavers
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31. How to Research an Art Object in the Nelson-Atkins Collection
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• Visit the artwork in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Look at the label copy, and note the title, artist, artist
period and accession number.
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• Search the collections online from the museum's website, http://www.nelson-atkins.org/collections located
under the Heading Art | Collections. This valuable resource may include label copy, size, medium, museum
location and other information
3
• Search the library's collection of books, auction catalogs and more in the online catalog
http://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org
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• After you've searched the collection database, museum publications and the online catalog, the next step is to
search the library's databases at http://libraryonesearch.nelson-atkins.org The databases include a
comprehensive art encyclopedia, article citations, full-text articles, auction sales results and are available from
the library's public computers.
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• Library staff is happy to help you further research. Please contact the reference staff at the Spencer Art
Reference Library at 816.751.1216 or via the Museum's website at: http://www.nelson-
atkins.org/education/Library.cfm

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Need more?
Spencer Art Reference Library
Contact:
Reference Desk, 816.751.1216
Marilyn Carbonell, Head, Library Services
Amelia Nelson, Librarian, Public Services
Tracey Boswell, Catalog/Reference Librarian
Roberta Wagener, Assistant, Public Services
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33. To the Library Reading Room to get started
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