Chinatown Resources
These books on Boston's Chinatown are available at the Tisch Library (may be requested for delivery to the SMFA):
- A contract with the community? : a case study of the planning process in Boston's Chinatown
- Yi bu, yi bu lai : the evolution of politics and planning in Boston's Chinatown
Additionally, this Master's thesis is available via the Tufts Digital Library:
Browsing
Books: Catalog Subject Headings
Browse these subject headings to see all related books in the Tufts' libraries.
Browse these artist name subject headings to see all related books in the Tufts' libraries.
Books: Browse the SMFA Library Shelves
| Art and society | NX180.S6 |
| Conceptual art | N6469 .C63 |
| Installation art | N6494.I56 |
| Public art | N8825 – 8846 |
Articles: Browse Periodicals
- Food, Culture, & Society
- Food Policy
- Gastronomica: The journal of critical food studies
- Journal of Food Science
Don't forget Canvas!
There are several excellent books and articles linked from the course Canvas page, under "Reading Lists." Many of the books are on reserve at the SMFA Library.
Searching
Jumbo Search
What it is: A portal for searching almost everything available through the Tufts Libraries. Think of it as google for Library resources.
Use it to: Search artist names and other key terms to find scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, exhibition reviews, streaming media, and more.
Art Source
What it is: A database that lets you search thousands of periodicals -- scholarly journals, news sources, and popular magazines -- related to art, architecture, and design.
Why it's useful: A good way to dive deeper into a topic, once you've done some background reading. Articles often represent current ideas and scholarly research that have not yet been published in books.
Search Tips
Use quotes: Surrounding two or more search terms in quotes will search for those words together as a phrase, and thus return more precise results. Works well for artist names:
- "Andi Sutton," "Lisa Gross," "Jennifer Rubell," etc.
Words, not phrases: Use precise search terms, as opposed to phrases.
- Good: "art" AND "food" AND "contemporary" AND "animal rights"
- Not so good: "which contemporary artists use food in their work to explore the issue of animal rights?"
Be tenacious: If your initial search terms don't yield many results, or the results you want, brainstorm and experiment with other related terms. For the example above, you might try:
- art AND food AND "animal rights"
- art AND food AND "vegetarian"
- art AND food AND "vegan"
- art AND food AND "factory farm*"
Use the tools: On a search results page, make use of the search refining tools in the left-hand column.
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