Liberal Arts Blog

A new Web page, Rhetorics of Resistance and Change, is up. The page has definitions, a plug for the upcoming international poster exhibit (at CSU), books, recommended databases for identifying articles, and links to Web pages sorted by: Alternative Education; Prison Industrial Complex; NISP/Glade; Oakland Ebonics Debate; and Electronic Languages (IM, Texting, Twitter). It is linked off of the English Language & Literature site. Freshly updated with links to various groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the Art in Sub-Saharan Africa page. Find links that have photos with descriptions of the Azande, Kuba, Mangbetu, Pende, Songye, Suku, and Yaka. Art in Sub-Saharan Africa is linked off of the Art Resources site.

Posted by Naomi Lederer at 02:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

There are currently five topical Web pages for Art. The pages provide titles of reference books (some books are electronic), terms to search in the library catalog, recommended indexes/databases to search for articles, and relevant Web pages found on sites around the world. If you or someone you know is doing research on one of these topics, these pages are the place to get started. The pages are: Art in 19th Century Europe; Art in Latin America; Art in Sub-Saharan Africa; Medieval Christian Saints in Art; and Pre-Columbian Art.

Posted by Naomi Lederer at 08:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dictionary of Art is now Art Online. It still includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms for definitions and information about artists, art, etc. Searching is different, however. Search All Content, Biographies, Subject Entries, or Images. Or browse A-Z. There are currently 5450 images, all from Grove Art Online, so the number of images available is greatly reduced from the previous version of this database. Nevertheless, it looks as if the Bridgeman Art Library is available directly online, so those images may still be found at http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/. A growing number of museums have images online as well. For links to some of the larger museums, see Goddesses.

Posted by Naomi Lederer at 10:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The largest dictionary of the English language is now available 24/7 to CSU affiliates. Look up the meaning of words, find their etymologies (history of the word), search for words by keywords in their definitions, search for words that beginning with a particular suffix, and much more. From their about page:
"The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books."
Take a look! If you cannot think of a word to look up OED will select one (get an entry) for you.

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