Scholarly Research: Critical Examination of Images
Build a bibliography of 5 to 10 sources to examine how images function for various viewers, their formal qualities, historical context, circulation, and relevance. Develop a search strategy, utilize appropriate tools effectively, evaluate results, and capture citations for information sources. Explore examples like Benjamin West's "The Death of General Wolfe" and Angelica Kauffman's "Self-Portrait" to analyze objects and search techniques.
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CA 314 Research Sylvia Roberts Liaison Librarian for Contemporary Arts sroberts@sfu.ca 778-782-3681
Scholarly research requirements Build a bibliography of 5 to 10 sources from various databases and library catalogues. Emphasis will be on critically examining how images functioned for different viewers, their formal qualities, historical context, circulation and relevance to our own moment in time.
Demonstration of research Develop a search strategy. Choose appropriate tools and search them effectively. Evaluate results and capitalize on good finds. Capture citations for information sources.
Example #1 Benjamin West s The Death of General Wolfe, 1770-1, National Gallery of Canada. Institutional record: https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/the- death-of-general-wolfe-0 What can we learn about the object from the description? What questions do you have about it? What can you use from course readings, discussions, lectures to discuss this object?
Example #2 Angelica Kauffman, Self-Portrait, 1770-75, National Portrait Gallery, 430 Institutional record: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03540/Angeli ca-Kauffmann Significant search terms? Related concepts?
Example #3 Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788, etching, 1788(?). Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington D.C., Broadside Port. 282, no. 43. Digital copy and description available from the institution that holds the object: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98504459/ How might research for this object differ from searching for information about an art object?
