Selected Resources for:
Art & Art History

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals   

http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=avery-set-c

1934-

A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide from 1934 to the present on architectural design and history but coverage as well of real estate development, commercial buildings, city planning, urban design, environmental studies, historic preservation, landscape architecture, garden history, interior design, furniture and decorative arts, and archeology. Also includes more than 13,000 obituary citations, thus providing biographical and professional information about architects.

Art Full Text   

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Citations only (1984-1993); Citations and abstracts (1994- ); Some full text (1997- ).

Art Full Text is part of the multi-subject Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega. Art Full Text covers a wide range of topics from archaeology and architecture to sculpture and video art. Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. 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. (Under Subject Area, choose Art.)

Location: Art Index, LAU REF Z5937.A78

Artbibliographies Modern   

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1974- .

Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews. Covers the current literature of modern art, photography, and design. Scope extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late twentieth century. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)   

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1973- .

BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d’Histoire de l’Art) is a bilingual, international bibliographic database on the history of post-classical Western art, architecture, and decorative arts. It covers art history from late antiquity to the present. BHA began publication in 1991 as a result of the merger of the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and Répertoire d’Art et d’Archéologie (RAA). Abstracts are available in both English and French, with full-subject indexes in both languages.

Index of Christian Art  

http://0-ica.princeton.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Database containing records for works of art with bibliographical references. Contains over 20,000 work of art records accompanied by over 60,000 images in color or black and white. Covers predominantly western art in 17 different media, according to five broad subjects: figures, scenes, nature, objects, and miscellany.

Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art  

Explains the significance of themes and subjects portrayed in mainly western art. Entries include descriptions of persons, titles of pictures, and objects.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks N 7560 .H34

International Directory of Arts  

Lists museums, public galleries, universities, and associations world wide. Also includes art and antique dealers, art publishers, restorers and other specialists in the field of art.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks N50 .I6

Oxford Art Online  

http://0-www.oxfordartonline.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Formerly known as Grove Dictionary of Art. A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the 1990s. The 45,000 articles of the print version of the Grove Dictionary of Art are accessible with added searching capability, additional context and authority of links to museums and other collections that may offer more information about the piece, the artist, and related works. Searches can be done by article heading, full text, contributor, caption, or combinations of these using concept, pattern, boolean and expert options. In addition, researchers may choose the Bridgeman Art Library from the main page to search a database of more than 100,000 images. In 2008, this resource expanded to include The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

Location: Ref. N31 .D5 1996

Guide to the Literature of Art History 2  

Lists and annotates the best art and architecture books and journals published worldwide in the last two decades of the twentieth century.

Location: LAU Ref Stacks Z 5931 .M374 2005

GEORGE   

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Books can provide useful information on a topic. Use GEORGE, the computer catalog, to find books by subject, title, or author. To search by SUBJECT: GEORGE uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. These are the topics assigned the book by the Library of Congress. Some are obvious and can be guessed, i.e., Picasso, Pablo or painting. Many are not obvious and may be composed of several words, i.e., Photography -- Digital techniques, or Saints in art. Two ways of finding the Library of Congress Subject Headings for a topic are: Consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings, the large red volumes shelved in the dictionary stand, near the Reference Desk. Perform a KEYWORD search on GEORGE for one or more of the terms which best describes your search. For example, sculpture and wood. GEORGE will create a set of records containing both words. If the set is too large, select MODIFY SEARCH, then select one of the ways of limiting. For works about an artist, perform a subject search using the artist's name. You can then scroll down to see the subdivisions the Library of Congress has created for that artist, for example: Cezanne, Paul 1839-1906 Cezanne, Paul 1839-1906 - Catalogs Cezanne, Paul 1839-1906 - Exhibitions. The number to the right is the number of records in GEORGE on that topic. Since there will not be a subdivision for all possible topics, also check the set of items under the name (without qualifiers) at the top of the list. If the set is large, you may want to use the LIMIT command.

Angelica Image Library  

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More than 90,000 textual descriptions and 8,000 digital images of thousands of art slides in the collection of the department of Art, Music and Theater. Database will eventually include other humanities-based images found in the University community (e.g., archaeology slides in the Classics department collection). Materials, text and image, are copyrighted.

ARTstor  

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Comprehensive digital library of over 500,000 images of artworks, photographs, architecture, decorative arts, rare books, and items from popular culture. Images may be viewed live in ARTstor or offline in ARTstor's downloadable image viewer. Collections include: The Image Gallery - General collection of images; broad in scope, but does include some specialized image collections Art History Survey Collection Carnegie Arts of the United States Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts Illustrated Bartsch Mellon International Dunhuang Archive Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection Native American Art and Culture from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection