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Selected Resources for: Art and Art History
 | Subject Librarian: Deborah Boudewyns E-Mail: ultan004@tc.umn.edu This guide is a selected list of reference tools covering the visual arts, art history, aesthetics, photography, applied arts, and museum studies. Some of these reference tools will also be useful for research in architectural history, performing arts and stage and theater design. This guide includes both print and electronic resources. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
America: History and Life    This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with over 2,000 journals including all key English-language historical journals.
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| Art Full Text Art Full Text, produced by The HW Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. See Art Index (below) for coverage before 1984.
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| Art Index This is the print index upon which Art Full Text is based. Very useful for research before 1984.
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| Art Index Retrospective Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, resources include data from yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
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| ArtBibliographies Modern Index and abstracts of articles from periodical articles, books, exhibition catalogs, and index entries for dissertations. Covers all aspects of late 19th and 20th century art, including decorative and applied art, with particular reference to photography and three-dimensional design.
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| Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) The data available on the Getty Web site as of April 1, 2010, comprises two databases: BHA and IBA. BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art) covers the years 1990-2007; the Getty Web version includes all records with abstracts in French or English and all subject terms in French and English. IBA (International Bibliography of the History of Art) covers 2008 and part of 2009; the Getty Web version includes all records with abstracts in English and all subject terms in French and English. A third database will be added to the Getty Web site during the coming months: RILA (Répertoire de la litterature de l'art), which covers 1975-1989. At present, the Getty has no plans to add RAA (Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie), which covers 1973-1989.
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| Design and Applied Arts Index DAAI is an international index to design and craft journals. It contains annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals, and data on nearly 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc.
All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, book design, photography, advertising, theatre design, ergonomics, and design management.
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| Dyabola: Subject catalogues of the German Archaeological Institute Contains several databases useful for locating publications on the history of art and the ancient world. It includes the subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt.
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| Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided.
Subjects Covered Include:
Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Urban Studies.
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| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Iter is a bibliography of over 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from
over 475 medieval and renaissance journal titles.
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| JSTOR Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| General (Newspapers & Magazines) at the University of Minnesota NOTE on ART SEARCHING: There are a number of newspaper and magazine indexes that may be useful for getting information on exhibits, current arts events, interviews with contemporary artists, museum topics, and arts issues such as funding, thefts, forgeries, censorship, etc.
LOCAL ARTISTS and LOCAL ARTS ISSUES: For local reviews, interviews, etc., search CD-ROM versions of Pioneer Press and/or Star Tribune, located in the Newspaper Room, basement of Wilson.
OTHER ART SEARCHES: you can search the following indexes for full-text articles:
Lexis-Nexis,
New York Times,
Expanded Academic Index, and
Magazine Index, also called General Reference Center.
The other indexes on the menu are not full-text, but they will list articles, and in some cases will provide abstracts (summaries) describing the articles.
STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE ART SEARCHES:
You may want to add keywords, such as "exhibits", "reviews", "interviews" (try singular and plural) or the name of the art museum and/or city where they have shown, in addition to the artist's name.
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| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. There are a number of newspaper and magazine indexes that may be useful for getting information on exhibits, current arts events, interviews with contemporary artists, museum topics, and arts issues such as funding, thefts, forgeries, censorship, etc. Search the following for full-text articles in Lexis-Nexis.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
| Biographical Dictionary of Artists, A [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Contemporary Photographers [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of Women Artists
an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900
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| Dictionary of Women Artists/ edited by Delia Glaze [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Guide to Black Artists |
| Research Guides No. 1: Internet Resources for Biographical Information on Artists, Designers, Architects, Craftspeople Compilation of weblinks to biographical information on designers, architects, craftspeople, painters and sculptors.
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| Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975 [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Who's Who in American Art [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Chronologies
| Elements of Design A chronological presentation of the major styles in European and American decorative art over a 500 year period.
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| Timeline of Art History, The The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff, perhaps the largest single core of art experts anywhere in the world, research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects.
First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to 1600 A.D., and will continue to expand in scope and depth. The Timeline will span art history up to the present day by the fall of 2004.
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Dictionaries
| ARTLEX You will find definitions of more than 3,300 terms here, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
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| ArtSpeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ArtSpoke : a guide to modern ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1848-1944 [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Essential Art History Covers terms used to discuss Western art (i.e. painting and sculpture) from Greek times to the present day.
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| Grove Art Online "The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day." NOW KNOWN AS OXFORD ART ONLINE.
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| Thames and Hudson dictionary of art and artists Includes 2500 brief entries of art terms, including names, styles, movements, artists, techniques, materials and other terms.
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| Visual Dictionary of Art Brief entries with inclusive coverage of cultures ; also useful for brief biographical information on artists. Less helpful for contemporary art due to its publication date.
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| Words of Art Online arts dictionary from Dept of Fine Arts, Okanagan University College in British Columbia.
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Directories
| American Art Directory [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| AskArt As a public service, AskART provides directory listings and links to approximately 1300 museums from around the world, dealers, auction houses, and an extensive list of artists in their collections. Subscribers to AskART receive auction data. The University does not currently subscribe to AskArt.
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| International Directory of Arts Good resource for addresses of museums, galleries, art schools, etc.
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| International Directory of Exhibiting Artists [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Dictionary of Art Excellent in-depth encyclopedia; highly recommended. Index in volume 34. Also available online.
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| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848
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| Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Sculpture [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Art Online "The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day." Formerly known as Grove Art Online.
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General Reference Works
| Art History |
| Art Information and the Internet, by Lois Swan Jones "How to find it, how to use it." Includes detailed specific applications. Full table of contents listed in MNCAT.
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| Art Information: Research Methods and Resources [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Reference Online This resource brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries
and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Art Law: Rights & Responsibilities of Creators & Collectors [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
Web Sites
| Dictionary of Art Historians This database is designed to give researchers a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. Includes an index of art historians mentioned in major art
historiographies.
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| DIgital Library for Decorative Arts and Material Culture The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources. Made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, the project is produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System.
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| mnartists.org An online database of Minnesota artists from all disciplines.
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| Research at the Getty This website will connect to the art research tools available online at the Getty Research Institute, including the Union List of Artists Names (ULAN), the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Photo Study Collection, and the Getty's own extensive library collection.
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| Resources in Art History for Graduate Students Web Site
"Resources in Art History for Graduate Students", now entering its fifth
year of publication, is a source for information on fellowship, grant,
publication, symposia, internship, and other opportunities for graduate
students in art history and most areas of the humanities (if I called it
"Resources in Humanities..." I would be typing all day). Please feel free
to link to this; I would appreciate an acknowledgement at your site.
Contact information:
Adrienne DeAngelis, Editor
Email: acd@efn.org
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| STUDIO ARTS: CeramicsWeb SDSU Ceramicsweb includes: databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a variety of educational materials related to ceramics.
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Multimedia Materials
Image Resources
| ARTstor ARTstor is a cross-disciplinary image database. It offers collections of approximately 300,000 art images and descriptive information covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's accompanying software tools will support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
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| CORSAIR Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts makes thousands of digital images from the Pierpont Morgan Library's collections and enhances the use of The Index of Christian Art, the world's largest archive of medieval art and the most comprehensive database for Christian iconography.
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| Finding Images & Art in the Library and Beyond Your one stop site for finding images - resource from the University of Arizona.
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| Illustration Index Each edition indexes published illustrations by subject.
7th edition covers 1987-1991
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| Image Collections A curated bibliography of quality image collections listed by subject. These resources include local collections, licensed content, and select open online collections of images.
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| NYPL Picture Collection, The Covering a wide range of subjects, this is a collection of some 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines, newspapers and original photographs, prints and postcards from before 1923.
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| World Painting Index |
| World's Master Paintings The world's master paintings : from the early Renaissance tothe present day : a comprehensive listing of works by 1,300
painters and a complete guide to their locations worldwide.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
| Project Muse Index to full-text collection of journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theater and performing arts, political science, and mathematics. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Electronic Journal Titles
| Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world's first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture,
graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe. The chronological scope of the journal is the "long" nineteenth century, stretching from the American and French Revolutions, at one end, to the outbreak of World War I, at the other.
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Journal Titles
| Research Guides No.2: Free-access, digitised art, architecture, design and craft journals on the Internet A collection of journals that have been digitised and available free to access on the Internet with a focus on digitised art, architecture, design and craft journals that have originally been published in print format. Click on the title to search.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| Walker Art Center : Painting and Sculpture from the Collection [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Research Guides
Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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Writing Guides
| Writing About Art |
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| Arts & Arch/LA Librarian Information Exchange This site is intended to inform students, staff, and faculty about current arts events in the Twin Cities, and research-related topics of vital interest within the disciplines of art history, fine arts, the performing arts, architecture and landscape architecture. This blog will serve as a resource guide and venue for sharing information concerning the arts-related disciplines.
Check often for announcements about new arts resources, tips for using online tools and resources, highlights of exhibitions at the University Libraries, and what resources we can offer to make attending local arts events more informed experiences! Let us know what you think. We welcome all comments and suggestions for blog topics.
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| Fine Arts Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries Includes lists of resources,
Subject and Collection Guides and art Web sites.
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