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Selected Art History & Modernism Resources

Art history resources:

Cezanne and modernism: the poetics of painting by Joyce Medina
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
ISBN: 9780585045429
Publication Date: 1995
This book explores how traditional relations among the arts have changed in our time, focusing on the radical transformation of Paul Cezanne. Interpreting Cézanne as a founder of Modernism, this book focuses on an aesthetics of the image (with roots in Bergson, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty) of equivalent value across the arts and in literature.
On modern beauty: Three paintings by Manet, Gauguin, and Cezanne by Richard R. Brettell
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2019
A thought-provoking examination of beauty using three works of art by Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne.
Pablo Picasso by Victoria Charles
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2011
Chronicles Picasso's life and work, with a significant number of images and illustrations.
Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2011
Full of color illustrations of Van Gogh's most famous works.

Modernism resources:

Article: Modernism
Lengthy definition and history of modernism from Grove Art Online, 2003.
Article: What is Modernism?
From the Tate Modern in London, explains the origins and history of modernism in art.

Modernism: A very short introduction by Christopher Butler
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2010
In this introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life.

Selected Sigmund Freud & Psychoanalysis Resources

Sigmund Freud resources:

Research Starter: Sigmund Freud
A brief biography of Freud from Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2021.

Freud: A very short introduction by Anthony Storr
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2001
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-century since his death, can we assess his true legacy to current thought.
Sigmund Freud by Pamela Thurschwell
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2000
This book guides readers through Freud's terminology and key ideas, then concludes with a detailed bibliography of his own and other relevant texts. A m̀ust for all literature students.

Psychoanalysis resources:

The analytic Freud: Philosophy & psychoanalysis by Michael P. Levine
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 1999
Collection of essays on the importance of Freudian thought for analytic philosophy, investigating its impact on mind, ethics, sexuality, religion and epistemology.
The Cambridge introduction to literature and psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel Rabaté
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2014
This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabaté takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts.
Freud, psychoanalysis, and symbolism by Agnes Petocz
Call Number: Ebook accessible online
Publication Date: 2009
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud's psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology.

Selected Articles

"Death, mourning, and human selfishness: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying through a Freudian lens," by Liam C. Butchart
PsyArt: A Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, vol. 19, 2015.
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Edited articles and searchable images on all aspects of visual art. Includes The Dictionary of Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and other reference works. Maximum 1 simultaneous user.
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The Dictionary of Art (Grove Dictionary of Art)
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
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Online access to core journals of the American Psychological Association and its partners through the EBSCOhost platform.

Image collection: Modern and Contemporary Art Images (the Met)
Images of modern and contemporary art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

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