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Art History 343: Visualizing the Other in Early Modern Latin America: Race, Ethnicity, and Art

A guide to basic information resources on Visualizing the Other in Early Modern Latin America, Art History 343.

Searching Tips

When searching for articles related to your artist, artwork, or the topic in general, you want to consider your keywords and use database search tips to increase your specificity.

  1. Artist's Name - depending on the artist in question, searching their whole name in quotation marks:
    • "Diego Quispe Tito"
    • "José Campeche"
    • Searching the name in " " tells the database to look for the name as a phrase, rather than two separate words, which increases your relevancy in results.
  2. Artwork's Name - depending on the artwork in question, you could search for the whole title of the work or a well-known abbreviation of the title, or even the work series title. You may want to include keywords related to context (Spanish Colonial Art) or the artist ("Diego Quispe Tito") if the artwork's title includes many generic words or phrases.
    • "Cuzco school" AND "Diego Quispe Tito"
  3. Time Period - if you are wanting to explore general topics in relation to art within this time period, you might start with controlling for time period in addition to other key words, like:
    • (Spanish AND (Colonial AND art)) OR (Viceregal AND (Brazil OR "New Granada" OR "New Spain" OR Peru))
    • and then searching alongside other key words, like indigenous peoples, different iconography, etc.

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