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The Art & Architecture Complete research database covers the study of art and architecture. This database provides full-text coverage of periodicals and books; indexing and abstracts for academic journals, magazines and trade publications, and books; and an image collection provided by Picture Desk and others.
Oxford Art Online offers access to authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable art resources. Users can access and cross-search Oxford’s art reference works: Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
Grove Art is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture. Benezit offers unique information about the sale and collection of artists’ work, and has comprehensive and definitive resources of artists’ biographies available. In addition, users can search and access Oxford art reference titles including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
History of art, decorative arts, museum studies, conservation - journal articles, monographs, exhibition catalogues and more
The definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, with new records created by ProQuest using BHA editorial policies, and the same thesaurus and authority files.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la Litterature de l'Art (RILA) provides a comprehensive bibliography on the history of Western art published,. It lists scholarly books, articles, and catalogs published through 2007. The database encompasses fine arts, decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, folk, and popular art.
Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs and articles from thousands of periodicals in many languages. The subject scope is particularly strong in European art from the medieval through modern periods, and indexing of foreign language materials. This legacy database was compiled from 1970 to 2007, and does not list newer (post-2007) writings on these topics.
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Citations to articles from key academic journals in the humanities (1984 - present), including art, communications, dance, gender studies, history, literature, music, philosophy, & theatre.
Single search for pre-2007 bibliographic databases in art, including BHA, RAA, and RILA. Covers European tradition in visual arts, including journals, monographs, and catalogs.
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