Overviews

• Oxford Bibliographies: Art History.

 

• The Oxford handbook of animals in classical thought and life
• The Oxford handbook of animal studies
• Thinking animals: why animal studies now?
• Animals: a history
• Critical terms for animal studies

 

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(JumboSearch for) Books 

Browse for Tisch library books on the topics covered in the course:

• Animals in art
• Animals, Mythical, in art
• Human-animal relationships in art

Tip: find one title, Representations of pain in art and visual culture.  learn from it keywords for your next search:  Pain in art, suffering in art, Psychic trauma in art.

Animals and Films

• • Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism. 2015
  • Animal Life and the Moving Image. 2015
  • Animality and Children's Literature and Film. 2015
  • Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human. 2017
  • The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture.  2009
  • Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies, 2019
  • Cinematic Quests for Identity: the Hero's Encounter with the Beast.  2015
  • Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film. 2011
  • The Disneyfication of Animals.  2021

 

More sample titles

• • Animals and the limits of postmodernism 2013
  • Figuring Animals: Essays on Animal Images in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Popular Culture. 2005
  • Plato's animals: gadflies, horses, swans, and other philosophical beasts. Michael Naas
  • Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art. 2011
  • Thinking Italian animals: human and posthuman in modern Italian literature and film. 2014

 

Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of  books on a topic.)

Getty Research Portal Digitized art history texts in the public domain.

**Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and sign up for a BPL eCard , Tufts students and faculty eligible)

**"Digital books" on Internet Archive

Scholarly Journal and Magazine, Newspaper Articles: 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Art History, American History and Related Subjects:

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier
• America: History & Life
• Anthropology Plus
• Art & Architecture Source
• ATLA Religion
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (World Culture)
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Women's Studies International

C. Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Current:

• Access World News (more regional coverage of news)
• Factiva (more international coverage of news)

Historical:

• African American Periodicals (1825-1995)
• American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
• British Periodicals
• Historical New York Times (1851-1993) 
• Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)
• The Times, London (1785-2010)
• More

• ARTStor (more than 2 million high-quality images)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• New York Public Library
• Digital Public Library of America
• Library of Congress