Subject
Guide: Art and Art History
INDEXES | REFERENCE
WORKS | WEB
LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the web and in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularly useful for the
study of Art, including art history, photography,
architecture, sculpture, painting, ceramics, and
drawing.
Please visit the Southwestern University Visual Resource Collection blog.
Also see the library's guide to Digital
Art and Virtual Reality.
INDEXES
Academic
Search Complete
A multi-disciplinary, full text database designed
specifically for academic institutions that includes
full text for over 3,970 scholarly publications abstracts
and indexing for nearly 4,406 scholarly journals
with many dating back to 1984. Full-page images,
as well as color embedded images are included. Through EBSCOhost.
Applied
Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexing and abstracts for over 485 scientific and
technical publications. Covers topics such as acoustics,
aeronautics, artificial intelligence, chemistry,
computers, engineering, geology, plastics, textiles,
and waste management. Also includes special issues
such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference
proceedings. Abstracts: March 1993 to the present.
Indexing: October 1983 to the present.
Art
Abstracts
Covers over 400 key international English-language
arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks,
museum bulletins, competition and award notices,
exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and
more. (For earlier citations, use the print version
of Art Index in the reference area, which
covers 1929-2000.)
Arts & Humanities
Search
Citations for leading arts and humanities
journals.
ARTstor
The ARTstor image database is a searchable collection of downloadable
high quality digital images for education and scholarship.
The database documents artistic and historical traditions
across many time periods and cultures. ARTstor is designed
for researchers, teachers and students. Users can download
individual images or use the ARTstor Online Image Viewer to
build a presentation using ARTstor images, arrange and caption
the images, and deliver the presentation in the classroom.
Oxford Art Online (Formerly The
Grove Dictionary of Art Online)
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual
arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture,
decorative arts and photography, from prehistory
to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15
years, it represents the work of more than 6,800
scholars from around the world, each writing on his
or her own field of study. From the dictionary's "welcome" page,
click "Enter Site."
HAPI
Online
Online version of the Hispanic American Periodicals
Index, the principal index for over 400 key journals
relating to Hispanics in the United States, Central
and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Among
the many subjects included are geography, archaeology,
anthropology, ethnography, folklore, religion, art,
literature, drama, and film.
Historical
Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes the world's periodical
literature in history and the related social sciences
and humanities from 1450 to the present. Articles
in Historical Abstracts derive from over 2,100 scholarly
journals published in more than 50 languages.
Humanities
Abstracts
Periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film,
folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing
arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world
literature. Includes some full text.
Humanities
International Index
A collection of bibliographic
references to literary, scholarly
and creative journals published
in the
United States and Canada. Covers over 700 journals
published from 1975 to the present. All journals
included here are indexed in their entirety (cover
to cover). This database provides citation information
for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original
creative works including poems and fiction. Photographs,
paintings and illustrations are also referenced.
JSTOR
Full text online for scholarly journal articles,
including many in art, architecture, Asian studies,
and more.
Project
MUSE
Provides full image journal articles in the humanities
and social sciences, in particular the areas of literature
and criticism, history, the visual and performing
arts, cultural studies, education, political science,
gender studies, and many others.
WorldCat
Access to listings of the holdings of library collections
worldwide including Smith Library Center.
REFERENCE
WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the
library's online
catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your
topic.
Below are a few representative titles
to get you started.
Dictionary of art
1996- . 34 volumes.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 703 D561 v 1-34
See also Oxford
Art Online.
Dictionary of artists
Benezit, E. 2006 v. 1-14
REFERENCE, 1st floor 709.22 D56 2006
Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art
Hall, James. 2008.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 704.94 H143d 2008
Encyclopedia of world art
1959-68. 17 volumes.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 703 En19
Gardner's art through the ages
2005, 12th ed.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 709 G173a 2005
Guide to the literature of art history 2
Marmor, Max. 2005.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 709 G9412
History of art
Janson, H. W. 2001, 6th ed.
REFERENCE, 1st floor 709 J267h 2001
Thames & Hudson dictionary of art terms
Lucie-Smith, Edward. 2004
REFERENCE, 1st floor 703.21 L963 2004
WEB
LINKS
Aesthetics
On-Line
The
American Museum of Photography
Archives
of American Art (Smithsonian)
Art
History Resources on the Web
ArtLex
Art Dictionary
Christus
Rex
Cyburbia
Dia:Chelsea
A
Digital Archive of American Architecture
The
Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference
Library
Oxford Art Online (Formerly Grove Dictionary of Art Online)
Index
of American
Design
J.
Paul Getty Museum Home Page
The
Louvre Museum
Mother
of All Art and Art History Links
Pages
National
Gallery of Art
The
Sculpture Center
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
Uffizi Gallery
The
Varo Registry of Women Artists
Voice
of the Shuttle: Art (Modern & Contemporary)
World
ArtTreasures
World Wide
Arts Resources
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodicals titles (both
print and online), search the online
catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals on your
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes. |
