Art & Art History: Finding Articles

Explore all genres of visual arts including a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. This collection includes journals, books, images, dissertations and art reproductions. Coverage: 1900s to present. Full text, Jumpstart searchable.

Search international journals published between 1929-1984, covering all genres of visual art. Coverage: 1929-1984. Citations only.

Search full abstracts from art journals published from the late 1960s to today, covering modern and contemporary art including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Coverage: late 1960s to present. Citations only.

Explore European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945. This database is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Coverage: varies. Citations only.

Search descriptive records for books, journals, and exhibition and auction catalogs, covering literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the mid-2000s. This bibliography brings together the records from the following databases: The Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie (RAA); International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Coverage: 1910-2007. Citations only.

Search articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs that cover European and American art. To search for materials published after 2007, use the International Bibliography of Art. Coverage: 1975-2007. Citations only.

Access a scholarly encyclopedia for art and art history. This encyclopedia includes thumbnail art images and line drawings, image links, and bibliographies. This encyclopedia is cross-searchable with the Benezit Dictionary of Artists using Oxford Art Online. Coverage: antiquity to present. Full text.

Access images of Christian, secular, and other religiously oriented Medieval art, in color and black and white images. This collection includes art from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture. Coverage: late antiquity to the 16th century, contains primary sources. Full text.

Explore primary resources, such as original letters, photographs, transcripts and audio materials on people and institutions that helped found American art. Coverage: 1800s to present, contains primary sources. Some full text.

Access eBooks, museum exhibitions, images, lesson plans and bibliographic guides on fashion and related fields, including the full text of the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and an extensive color image bank. This collection is useful for research in fashion, theatre & dance, anthropology, art history, history, American studies, and cultural studies. Coverage: varies, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access journals, books and other published sources from around the world in all aspects of the humanities, including archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, dance, film, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. For citation searching: click "Cited References" at the top of the search screen. Coverage: late 1800s to present. Some full text.

Explore historical and recent journals, books and images in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, with some natural science coverage. Coverage: varies - historical up to 1-5 years from current date, contains primary sources. Full text.

Access scholarly journals and ebooks in both the humanities and social sciences. Most journals covered are up to date. Ebooks include titles in Global Cultural Studies, Poetry, Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction. Coverage: historical and current. Full text.

Search for articles, patents, maps, conferences, books, reports, and theses in exact sciences and technology, biological and medical sciences, art, archaeology, economics, ethnology, geography, history of science and technology, literature, linguistics, administrative and legal sciences, education and religion sciences. Coverage: 1972-2015. Citations only.

Search for books and other materials in libraries worldwide. This tool is useful for discovering books that our library does not own that you can borrow via interlibrary loan (EZ-Borrow or ILLiad). Coverage: before 1000 BC to the present. Citations only, except for links to freely available e-books, government documents, and web sites.

See also Open WorldCat and Dickinson on Worldcat for alternative search box options.

Search this online version of "Anthropological Literature" from Harvard University plus "Anthropological Index" from the UK's Royal Anthropological Institute to find citations for essential anthropological literature. In addition to journal articles, this collection includes citations for reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage: late 19th century to present. Citations only.