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Sculpture In Site: Finding Textual Information

Finding Books

Search the FLO Library Catalog to find print and electronic books. For titles owned by the SMFA Library, select our location in the right-hand "Filter Your Search" box on the results page.



 

A keyword search will give you results where your search terms appear anywhere in the record (title, author, subject, description, etc.). This is usually the best option for searching.

Select title search if you are sure of the title you are looking for

Select author to see all titles in the FLO library collections by a specific person

A subject search will show all FLO titles on a given subject. The subject headings are defined by the Library of Congress; you might try finding a term in their subject headings database before plugging it into the FLO catalog. 

 

Browse Books in the FLO Consortium

Browse these subject headings in the FLO catalog to see all consortium holdings on specific topics related to your curatorial project. In most cases you can place a request for print books that are not owned by the SMFA Library.

Art--Exhibition techniques Landscape architecture
Art, Municipal Museum techniques
Artistic collaboration Nature in art
Earthworks (Art) Olmsted, Frederick Law
Environment (Art) Public art
Installations (Art) Site-specific art
Installations (Art)--Exhibitions Site-specific installations (Art)
Interactive art Space (Art)

 

Browse Books on the SMFA Library Shelves

Take a look at the books in the following sections:

Art and society NX180.S6
Earthworks N6494.E27
History of sculpture NB60 – 198
Installation art N6494.I56
Public art N8825 – 8846
Sculpture by country/region NB205 – 1080
Sculpture by material NB1202 – 1271
Sculpture technique NB1170 – 1180

 

Finding Articles

The following databases are recommended for finding scholarly articles, exhibition reviews, and book reviews. Searching databases is a great way to find a diversity of opinions and scholarly interpretations of a given topic.

Database searches are most successful when you use precise and specific terms ("public art," for example, would yield way too many results!). Try searching for people (artists, curators, scholars), conceptual terms, and object names.

Contact us!

Please feel free to get in touch with a librarian at any stage of your research process. Stop by the library (located on the third floor of the B side of the Fenway building), or get in touch directly with:

Ashley Peterson

  • apeterson@smfa.edu
  • 617-369-3653

Darin Murphy

  • dmurphy@smfa.edu
  • 617-369-3651

Circulation Desk (evening and weekend contact)

  • library@smfa.edu
  • 617-369-3650

Can't find it at the SMFA?

If you can't find what you need at the SMFA Library, we may be able to obtain a copy for you elsewhere.

Visit our Interlibrary Loan page, or contact Lauren Kimball-Brown for more information:

  • lkimball-brown@smfa.edu
  • 617-369-3971
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