Che Guevara

Art & Revolution:
The Latin American Avant-Garde

Library Intensive Course: SPAN164
Spring 2004

Laura Reiner
Reference Librarian
reiner@brandeis.edu
x64689

based on the work of Deborah Margolis


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Brandeis Library Research Guides

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Literature Reference

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
    Main Reference PQ7081.A1 E56 1997
  • Vanguardism in Latin American Literature: An Annotated Bibliographical Guide
    Reserve PQ7081 .F633 1990
  • Las Vanguardias Literarias en Hispanoamérica: Manifestos, Proclamas y Otros Escritos
    Reserve PQ7081.A1V29 1995
  • Las Vanguardias Latinoamericanas: Textos Programáticos y Críticos
    Main Stacks PQ7081.A1 V28 1991

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Art, Photography & Film Reference

  • Grove Art Online
    Full-text online version of the 34-vol. Dictionary of Art, with continuous updating of content and thousands of image links to art works. Essential source.
  • Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
  • Handbook of Latin American Art = Manual de Arte Latinoamericano : A Bibliographic Compilation
    Creative Arts Reference N6502 .H3 1984
  • Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else
    Creative Arts Reference N 6502.5 .P84 1996
  • A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
    Creative Arts Reference NX 456 .K67 2000
  • Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944
    Creative Arts Reference N 6447 .A85 1993
  • Twentieth-century Artists on Art: An Index to Writings, Statements, and Interviews by Artists, Architects, and Designers
    Creative Arts Reference NX456 .R59 1996
  • Contemporary Photographers
    Creative Arts Reference TR 139 .C663
  • Oxford Guide to Film Studies
    Main Reference PN1995 .O93 1998
  • South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994
    Main Stacks PN1993.5.S63 S68 1996
  • Mexican Cinema
    Main Stacks PN1993.5.M4 C4913 1995
  • Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
    Main Reference PQ 7082 .D7 E63 2003

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Spanish Language Reference

  • Spanish Dictionaries - yourDictionary.com
  • Spanish Dictionaries - La Página del Idioma Español
  • Spanish Thesaurus - Lenguaje.com
  • For Spanish dictionaries in print, see
    Main Reference PC2625...
  • For Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionaries in print, see
    Main Reference PC4640...
  • The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
    Main Reference PC4410 .F68 1999

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Finding Books

  • LOUIS catalog
    Books and journals owned by the Brandeis Libraries.
  • Boston Library Consortium (BLC)
    A BLC card lets you borrow books from any of 19 area college libraries.
  • WorldCat
    Search 14,000 online catalogs at once! Most academic, research and public libraries in the US.
    Use the ILL button to order items we don't own through Interlibrary Loan.
  • Academic Libraries & Information Networks in Latin America
    Links to Latin American libraries by country, from the Latin American Network Information Center.

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Finding Articles

Off-campus access to databases

Indexes

  • MLA International Bibliography - Modern Language Association
    Indexes articles, books, dissertations, etc. in literature, language, linguistics and folklore, 1963-present.

  • HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly articles on Latin America, 1970-present.

  • Handbook of Latin American Studies Online
    Selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America in the humanities and social sciences from the Library of Congress, 1935-present.

  • Hispanam (Access in library computer clusters only)
    Indexes bibliographic references for Spanish and Spanish-American language and literature, 1937-1992.

  • Art Abstracts
    Indexes periodicals, exhibition listings, museum bulletins, yearbooks, interviews, competition and award notices, and book and film reviews in more than 250 key international, mostly English-language journals in the visual arts, 1984-present.

  • Bibliography of the History of Art
    Indexes and abstracts articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and more, covering the fine arts, applied arts, industrial design & architecture, popular & folk art, photography, and performance art, 1975-present.

Full-text databases

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High-Quality Web Sites on Latin American Art

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Cite Your Sources

  • Citing your sources - online examples from the 4 major style guides

  • The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
    location: Main Library Reference PC 4410 .F68 1999
    Spanish style guide. Punctuation, spelling, grammar.
    Includes a chapter on citing works in Spanish.
  • Citing Grove Art Online
    Scroll down to see handy examples developed by Brandeis art librarian Darwin Scott
  • MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
    Reference Desk PE1478 .M57 1999

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