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  • A&AePortal
    The A&AePortal is an eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research. The site includes many out-of-print titles, key backlist, and recent releases from some of the world’s finest academic and museum publishers. books e-books
  • Art & Architecture Complete
    Provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 780 periodicals and over 230 books, and an image collection of over 63,000 images. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and more. Coverage: Details not available. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Art Full Text
    Provides citations and select full text from over 250 publications such as periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Subjects covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, decorative arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures & film, museology, non-western art, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, and textiles. Coverage: 1929-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals
  • Artstor
    The Artstor Digital Library provides images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Comprises contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Images form ARTstor are for noncommercial educational or scholarly use only. Images may be used in educational or scholarly presentations, including printed handouts, but may not be otherwise distributed or publicly displayed. artwork images primary sources video multimedia
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    Indexes journal articles, book and website reviews, exhibition reviews, and obituaries for architecture, architectural history, design, archaeology, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning. Includes "physical details" field, noting such items as photos, plans, drawings, and sections. International in scope. Coverage: 1930s-present. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals

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  • BHA – Bibliography of the History of Art
    Covers international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World from late antiquity to the present. Includes both the fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints) and decorative and applied arts (popular art, folk art). Indexes and abstracts journals, books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers' catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. Literature after 2007 is covered in the International Bibliography of Art (IBA). Content covered by RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art, 1975-1989) and BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art, 1989-2007) is included in this database. Coverage: 1975-2007. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals

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  • Getty Open Content
    Hosted by the Getty Research Institute. Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. This link initially limits your search to images available for free download under the Getty's Open Content Program. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images primary sources video multimedia

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  • International Bibliography of Art
    Successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Covers current international literature on the history of art in Europe and the New World from late antiquity to the present. Includes both the fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints) and decorative and applied arts (popular art, folk art). Indexes and abstracts journals, books, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers' catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. See BHA for coverage from 1975 to 2007. Coverage: 2008-. articles newspapers magazines articles scholarly journals

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  • Oxford Art Online
    Covers art and culture from prehistory to the 1990s. Its multicultural approach offers detailed analyses of civilizations from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific. Provides a guide to the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, and printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. Coverage: Details not available. artwork images encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Art History
    Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic. encyclopedias reference
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation
    Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. encyclopedias reference

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  • Performance Design Archive
    Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. It includes 100,000 pages of primary and secondary resources, including sketches, photographs, technical drawings, monographs, articles, and dissertations. primary sources

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