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Art History Guide

A guide to using the library collections and resources for research and writing about Art History

Selected Art Databases

Art Abstracts:
Indexes key international English-language arts publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition & award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more.

Art and Architecture in Video:
Documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. Includes coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary Art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.

Artstor Digital Library:
Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and includes an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Benezit Dictionary of Artists:
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists, published since 1911, is a comprehensive and definitive resource for artists' biographies. Benezit's distinguishing features include its entries on obscure artists, historic auction records, and over 11,000 images of artists' signatures, monograms, and stamps of sale.

JSTOR:
Journal articles from core scholarly journals in the liberal arts and sciences. Coverage extends from the first issue of journals included to 3 - 5 years before the present. Our JSTOR collections include journals in economics, history, ecology, mathematics, statistics, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.

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