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ARTbibliographies Modern

Citations and abstracts to international art, photography, design and architectural history publications, including museum catalogs. Try a search by artist's name, listing the last name first:  "Siqueiros, David Alfaro" or "Tamayo, Rufino."  If you're looking for information about a particular artistic movement or period, use the Thesaurus at the end of the page to find the correct subject heading for that movement.  HINT:  "Politics and Art" is a subject heading in this database.

ARTstor ^Guide

ARTstor is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data. While you will not find articles about your topic here, you will find images of the works of the artists or works produced within the genre you're searching. 

Art Abstracts

While this database's focus is primarily British and American, it includes a broad international coverage of art, including photography, crafts, landscape architecture, design, folk art, art history, etc. Search options include a "Geographic Coverage Phrase" so you can search for articles about the art of a particular country or area; use this to limit your search to Latin America in general or a specific Latin American country.

PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas

Full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Articles are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.  Use the Subject List to find your artist's name or the name of a particular genre.

UA Libraries Guide to Music Genres: Latino (US) and Latin American (Classical and Popular)

This is an excellent guide to music resources in the Fine Arts Library, created by Bob Díaz, the UA Libraries' Music librarian.  Scroll down to the section on Latino and Latin American music resources.

Music Index Online

A broad range of historiographic, ethnographic and musicological subjects is covered as well as a number of topics associated with dance, such as ballet and modern dance. The Music Index offers the researcher access to a wealth of data on past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments, computer produced music.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, music therapy. librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics. Covers journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, and other types of resources in the field of music.

International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)

IIPA covers the disciplines of dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business. Use the "Subject Categories" option to narrow your search to a particular genre, or the "Subject Terms" option to narrow your search to a particular artist.

International Index to Music Periodicals (Full text)

Article abstracts from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Includes feature articles and obituaries. Use the "Subject Categories" option to narrow your search to a particular genre, or the "Subject Terms" option to narrow your search to a particular artist.

MLA Bibliography (literature, language, linguistics) ^Guide

Citations to published scholarly literature in linguistics, modern languages, literature, communicative behavior, and folklore. Detailed coverage of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American literature. Use the "Names as Subjects" option (in the green tool bar at the top of the screen) to look for articles on a particular writer, or the Thesaurus (also in the green tool bar) to find articles about a particular genre.

Literature Resource Center

Provides reference materials on authors of both fiction and nonfiction. Includes bibliographical and biographical information, literary criticism and contextual information. Access by author, title, genre, literary movement or theme. Includes primarily full text and excerpted text articles from major reference sources, scholarly journals, commissioned essays and interviews.