Monday, March 10, 2014

Lecture Notes, Searching for Information for Studio Proposal

-Roy Denim, coolhunting.com

Adriana Ciccone

Recurring terms - themes begin to emerge - books, journal articles, images/artworks

Brainstorm about idea - themes & ideas - related words
ARTstor, Oxford Art Online, Trove, Google Art Project
famous literary books, history books

*Create a mind map of ideas!
Library search - apocalypse painting, dystopia painting

*Visual Arts Subject Guide (Access)
Exhibition catalogues -  type exhibitions into Library catalogue search box
Art and Architecture Complete Image Collection (under More)
Art and Architecture Complete, ART bibliographies Modern, Informit Arts databases, JSTOR
-try multidisciplinary databases

Research starters - Sociology database- broad theoretical scope

feminis* - any ending of word
look at what subject terms are used for a particular article, and then employ them as your own search terms
Library Home Page - Subject Guides - Browse A-Z - Visual Arts

*Proposal must demonstrate understanding of the topic already! Not just what you WILL do!

Google Scholar

Ultimate purpose of proposal - put our work in context of other painters, theory, methodology

key words of train of thought - natural progression into different direction

Ruins - materiality - space and time - Stonehenge - druids - celtic - culture - beliefs

WHY SHOUD YOUR OBJECT BE NEW TO THIS WORLD?

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