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Here are recommended databases for searching for articles in art and art history:
 

Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles covering all fields of art and art history. Limited full-text access.

Arts & Humanities Search
This resource indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and it indexes selected articles from social science and science journals. It Indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.

ARTstor
ARTstor provides an impressive database of over 500,000 searchable images. Tools within the database enable  viewing (or displaying) slides side-by-side and collecting "folders" of images for classroom use, research, or assignments. These works are copyright cleared for educational and research purposes.

Online Tutorial: Searching and Saving Images in ARTstor

Online Tutorial: Beginner's Guide for using ARTstor's Online Image Viewer (OIV)

Avery Index
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration. It contains more than 440,000 thousand entries surveying over seven hundred American and international journals. These include not only scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Index and abstracts for journal articles and books covering European and American art from late antiquity to modern.

Humanities Abstracts
Index to popular and scholarly journals referencing various aspects of art and art history. Covers archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, food, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, space, world history, and world literature. Limited full-text access.

JSTOR
Full-text article backfile of scholarly journals, 1995 and prior, covering a wide variety of subjects including African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, science, sociology, and statistics.

Oxford Art Online
This database includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols; also known as Grove Art Online), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001), the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

Course Guides

ARTD 1313, Art & Archaeology in Ancient Egypt

ART 3314, Issues in Contemporary Art

ARTH 1307, Prehistoric to Medieval Art History

ARTH 1308, Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art

ARTH 3341, Early Renaissance Art in Italy, 1300-1485

ARTH 3343, Italian Baroque Art

ARTH 3353, 19th-Century American Art

ARTH 3391, Arts of Power: Art for the Courts of Medieval and Early Modern History

ARTH 3392, Women's Studies in Art History

ARTH 4394, Methods and Theories in Art History

MDRS 3301, Culture and Creativity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

 


 
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