Subject Portal » Art and Art History
librarians:
- Jeremy Blatchley (BMC)
- Anne Garrison (SC)
- James Gulick (HC)
- Marianne Hansen (BMC)
- Camilla MacKay (BMC)
Research Guides:
- Seminar in Visual and Textual Technologies
- Iconography
- Endnote Web & Zotero: General Database Instructions
- researching anime and manga
Course Guides:
Fall 2009Other Resources:
Related Subjects:
Databases A-Z:
Other:
Start Here:
Art index
Provider: Wilson
Offers abstracts of journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks in the fields of art, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Covers abstracts from 1929-present, full-text articles 1997-present.
Oxford art online
Includes articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present. Included in Oxford Art Online are
Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Bibliography of the history of art
Provider: CSA
Offers abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers 1973-present.
ARTbibliographies modern
Holdings:
Database Coverage: 1974-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all areas of modern and contemporary art including photography, sculpture and art history and theory. Covers late 1960's-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the most prominent journals in art history. Includes the possibility of searching images from JSTOR articles at the same time as images from ARTstor.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, some dating back 300 years and all indexed from the first issue. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages; wide selection of journals in art and art history. Searchable by author, journal, article title, and date.
Image Sources:
ARTstor
A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
ArchNet Digital Library (Islamic world)
Large collection of images of art and architecture throughout the Islamic world from all periods.
Tripix
Provides access to images that are part of the Tri-College Visual Resource Collections (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). Most Trico images in Tripix can also be found in ARTstor (ARTstor is only updated once a semester; Tripix is updated weekly).
National Palace Museum.
Images of approximately 12,000 selected masterpieces from the Chinese imperial collection representing paintings, examples of calligraphy, rare books and manuscripts, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, jades, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects, from prehistory (Xia dynasty) to the early 20th century.
Image resources (Visual Resources links)
Links to recommended sites for digital images, mostly art, archaeology, and architecture.
More Resources for Specialized Subjects:
AATA online
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Trust.
Abstracts of International Conservation Literature. Abstracts from journal articles, books, conference proceedings dissertations and other resources related to the preservation and conservation of materials. Covers 1932-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: FirstSearch
Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Covers 1980-present.
Avery index to architectural periodicals
Provides citations to journals in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation and archaeology. Covers 1930-present.
Bryn Mawr College Library collection of auction catalogs
A collection of nearly 6000 auction catalogues spanning the 20th century to the present, chiefly from Christie's and Sotheby's. This collection is available at Carpenter Library. Please note that this collection is incomplete, and no catalogues have been added for several years. Museums in the area like the library Philadelphia Museum of Art are a much better source of auction catalogues.
Index of Christian art database
Based on The index of Christian art, a thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects begun at Princeton University in 1917, the index catalogs primarily Christian art from early apostolic times to approximately 1400 A.D. While coverage is predominantly of Christian iconography, Jewish, Islamic, and non-ecclesiastical subjects are also covered. The database contains a portion of the index's backfiles as well as all works cataloged since 1991. Entries include descriptive information, provenance, location and ownership information, bibliographical references, and, when available, a photographic reproduction of the work of art.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
International medieval bibliography-online.
Provides abstracts and citations to articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450 to 1500 for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Iter
A bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, (400-1700). Includes articles, reviews, bibliographies and discographies.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:
The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2001.
Included in Oxford Art Online (see above)
The Yale dictionary of art and artists
Publisher: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2000.
Western art from 1300 to the present day. It provides information on painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, technical processes, terminology, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and much more. There are also extended conceptual entries ranging over such subjects as abstraction, allegory, genres, iconography, illusionism, minimalism, realism, and symbolism.