FA 461

Frank Lloyd Wright Seminar

Prof. Jeffery Howe

AssignmentReport and presentation

What has been written?• 186 books in QUEST

• 2589 books in Worldcat• Over 6000 entries in Frank Lloyd Wright : a bio-

bibliography / Donald Langmead.Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1886-2003.

• 1739 articles in ArtFulltext and Retrospective (since 1929)

• 1763 articles in Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

• And another 1102 articles in other databases

Where to begin??

• Books on Reserve

Follow up on footnotes and bibliography

• What else did author write?

• Search QUEST for titles

Go to stacks

• NA737 .W7

Follow up on footnotes and bibliography

• Search QUEST for other subject headings

Search GroveOnline

• Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

W. Storrer: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalogue (Cambridge, 1974) (3rd edition 2002 on Reserve)

J. Meech-Pekarik: ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Prints’, Bull. Met., xl (1982), pp. 48–56 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.40 1982)

J. Siry: ‘Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple and Architecture for Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885–1909’, A. Bull., lxxiii/2 (June 1991), pp. 257–82 (Art Bulletin, Vol. 73, no. 2)

N. Levine: The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton, [1996]) (On reserve)

J. Siry: Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge and New York, 1996) (On reserve)

Search in

J. Meech-Pekarik: ‘Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Prints’, Bull. Met., xl (1982), pp. 48–56 (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.40 1982)

Link to the actual article

Where can I find other sources?

• ArtFulltext (1984-present)• Art Retrospective (1929-1984)• Biographies Plus

Avery Index to architectural periodicals

Bibliography of the History of Art

ArtBibliographiesModern

British Humanities Index

MLA

Philosophers Index

Making some sense of your results

How to zero in

• Frank Lloyd Wright and a named building

Where can I find images?

How can I keep track of my resources?

• A free tool from the Boston College Libraries

Look for RefWorks

• WorldCat

• ArtFulltext (1984-present)

• Art Retrospective (1929-1984)

• Biographies Plus

Avery Index to architectural periodicals

Bibliography of the History of Art

ArtBibliographiesModern

British Humanities Index

MLA

Philosophers Index

Researching and Writing an Art History Paper

http://www.bc.edu/libraries/centers/bapst/resources/s-arthistory/