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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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

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

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

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.

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

High-Quality Web Sites on Latin American Art

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