is a great first step to understand your research question more deeply
to understand exactly what to search for
can help you learn additional facts and important concepts and keywords related to your broader topic
can help you shape your topic to make it more specific
These sources probably will not be your final sources in your paper, but always check with your professor about what you should cite and include.
Latin American Revolutions (links to essays in Credo Reference).
Search for artist names or groups, the names of revolutions, a type of art and a country (example: mural AND Nicaragua)
Oxford Art Online is a comprehensive reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present.
Search for leaders of revolutions, important events leading up to the revolution or during or ending the revolutions, etc.
Credo Reference is an online reference library providing access to over 615 reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, in addition to a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.
You will have a better frame of reference to understand these articles when you have done a little background reading and you will also have better keywords to search these databases once you've done the background work.
Keyword search example in a database: Database: JSTOR Search Statement: Sandinista AND mural AND revolution
These usually include details about the artistic medium, dimensions of the art, where the art is located presently, etc.
When we write we are having a conversation, with those who wrote before us, and with our readers. We need to make sure to include the voices of those we learned from. That's what citations do.
