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| Arts/Architecture/Photography POWERSEARCH | Searches following databases simultaneously:
Art Abstracts,
Art Index Retrospective for 1929-1984,
Academic Search Complete ,
Humanities International Index,
Essay & General Literature Index,
Humanities Abstracts,
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. How to Search This Database |
| ARTStor | This visual database contains over 1 million pictures, paintings, sculpture, photographs, architectural drawings, and designs. Derived from the artistic traditions of many eras and cultures, this material comes from museums, libraries, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars. How to Search This Database |
| International Bibliography of Art | A product of the Getty Trust, BHA and its predecessors cover the current literature of European Art from late Antiquity to the present and American art from the European discoveries to the present. BHA indexes books, journals, conference proceedings, festschriften, and exhibition catalogs concerned with postclassical European and post-Columbian American art. Although this database is no longer active, it contains information on publications through 2007. |
| Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects. How to Search This Database | |
| PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews. How to Search This Database | |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index | Part of ISI Web of Knowledge, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a broad multidisciplinary index to journals published since 1975 in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, etc. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching.A good place to start if you want to know which writers are citing a particular author. How to Search This Database |
| International Index to Performing Arts Full Text | Indexes more than 200 performing arts journals and as well as biographical information, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, and reviews. Subjects include film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc. Some material is full-text. This is a good place to begin researching film and television studies. Abstracts span back to 1998, and indexing begins as far back as 1864. How to Search This Database |
| Oxford Art Online | The new home of Grove Art Online, the Oxford Art Online database contains electronic versions of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. The Oxford Art Online database also offers thousands of images from ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists. |
| Grove Art Online | A major scholarly art database covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art, and contains more than 45,000 articles contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. It is maintained with a regular update program to include current articles and bibliographies. Grove Art Online is part of the larger Oxford Art Online database, which also contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
| The Vogue Archive | This database is a searchable archive of Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's commercial artists, stylists, and photographers and is a unique record of fashion, culture, advertising, and society from the dawn of the twentieth-century to the present day. It is also a rich source for other areas of modern culture, providing a record of changing social tastes and mores, encompassing literary works by Kate Chopin, Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov, and Carson McCullers, articles by Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell, wartime photojournalism by Lee Miller, features on popular cultural figures of the day from Marlene Dietrich and the Beatles to Nicole Kidman and Beyoncé, and on prominent American women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. |
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The Listener was a weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programs in print. With major contributors including E. M. Forster, George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, it also provided an important platform for new writers and poets, W. H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin being notable examples. As well as expanding on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also discussed major literary and musical programs and regularly reviewed new books. How to Search This Database |
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An index (with abstracts) to over 1,700 periodicals in more than forty languages published since 1964. The most important source for articles on United States and Canadian cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military history, this database covers the periods from prehistory to the present and includes some full-text articles. For European and World history, see its counterpart Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
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An index (with abstracts) to more than 2,000 journals published in over 80 countries in more than 50 languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Some full text is included. This is the best place to begin research in modern history (from 1450 to the present). For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life. How to Search This Database |
| Contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. One of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work. | |
| An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939. It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy. How to Search This Database | |
| FRANCIS | Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database |
Important Web Sources |
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| Mother of All Art History Links | The Website is sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan and provides links to Art History Departments in the United States, research resources, resources for visual collections, image collections and online art, online exhibitions, fine art schools and departments, art museums, textual and linguistic resources and finally new media art resources. |
| Website, The detailed timeline of Art History | |
| American Memory Project | Website, Sponsored by the Library of Congress |
Related Book Titles in McDermott Library |
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Bibliography of the History of Art |
You will find this resource in the Reference Aisle 1B of the McDermott Library second floor. |
Dictionary of Art |
Second floor, Reference area -N31 .D5 1996 |
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