Art History and Criticism

Art Abstracts - UW restricted
Art abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.

ARTbibliographies Modern - UW restricted
From the CSA Web Site:

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s.

ABM is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. The coverage of ABM is wide-ranging and includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index - UW restricted
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, with cited references but not abstracts. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, plus individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - UW restricted
"The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is updated daily." Note: because I'm having trouble linking directly to Avery, this link will take you to the UW Libraries database page--scroll down to find the correct link.

Bibliography of the History of Art - UW restricted
"The Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present."

JSTOR - UW restricted
Contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals, some going back to the 1800s. Covers many different disciplines, including Art, Literature, History, African-American Studies, Asian Studies and more.

Project Muse Search - UW restricted
Project Muse is a subject searchable database of scholarly journals published by university presses. Like JSTOR, it will retrieve full text articles only. Its journal holdings are not as strong in art as they are in the other humanities, but you may find articles that cross over into other subject areas.

Information Gateway - All databases
All of the databases are listed alphabetically on this page.

E-Journals: Art
This link will take you to a list of the electronic art journals we subscribe to. The search interfaces vary, and many are provided by other database vendors, such as ProQuest and JSTOR.

Interdisciplinary databases

Expanded Academic ASAP - UW restricted  
Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, including art.

Research Library - UW restricted 
Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest and humanities titles, including art. A good place for finding book reviews. For more titles in the ProQuest collection, try searching the entire database at once (Research Library is just one part of the entire ProQuest collection. Because ProQuest has so many titles, it's usually a good idea to start in Research Library to limit your results).

Readers' guide retrospective - UW restricted 
A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America; covers 1890-1982.

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