Research Guides: HP 326: Music and the Arts: Art & Architecture

Databases

Library databases have access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Every database has different content. This makes it important to use a database that has content on the subject you are researching. In addition, be sure to search in more than one database to find information.

Check out these recommended databases to get started:

Oxford Art Online (Grove Art Online)
Search the Grove Art Online for articles and updates on every aspect of the visual arts, from prehistory to the present, with images of the most frequently studied works of art. You can find the option to also search The Concise Dictionary of Oxford Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and Oxford Companion to Western Art from the search results page.

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Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from scholarly journals on a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture.
This database features full-text articles from more than 320 periodicals dating back to 1977, and indexing of more than 210,000 art reproductions. Art Full Text also supplies high-quality indexing and abstracts for over 660 periodicals dating back to 1972, including nearly 360 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 14,000 art dissertations.
Credo Reference
This multidisciplinary online reference library provides access to a selection of 601 reference books and 3,412,690 entries.
Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Academic Search Premier
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 4,770 full-text journals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
This multi-disciplinary database offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. It includes more than 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals and provides full-text for 4,770 journals, including full-text for 4,000 peer-reviewed titles. You will find PDF backfiles to 1975 or further as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,050 journals. This database is an excellent source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STEM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
JSTOR
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals dating as far back as 1665. Multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal and ebook collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines in the Humanities, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Ebook Central
The most comprehensive collection of e-books, with more than 125,000 e-books from a broad range of subject areas including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and science.
Topics covered include business and economics, computing, education, engineering, history, political science, humanities, area studies, literature, linguistics, law, life sciences, psychology, social work, sociology, religion, classics, and philosophy.

Suggested Books

These reference books will help you get started with your research.

The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Hugh Brigstocke (Editor)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 0198662033
Publication Date: 2001
This reference work contains more than 2600 entries on artists, art styles and movements, art forms, materials and techniques. Available as an e-book through Oxford Art Online.
Gardner's Art Through the Ages by Fred S. Kleiner; Christin J. Mamiya; Richard G. Tansey; Helen Gardner
Call Number: REF N5300 .G25 2005
ISBN: 0534640958
Publication Date: 2005
This book explores the history of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture from the Stone Age to the present, with a discussion of the historical, religious, economic, and cultural context of a wide range of works.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics by Michael Kelly (Editor)
Call Number: REF BH56 .E53 1998
ISBN: 0195113071
"Featuring more than 600 articles by more than 500 globally recognized art historians, philosophers, and theorists, this encyclopedia provides coverage of historical accounts and critical discussions on the subject." Available in the Jennings Library reference collection and also as part of the Oxford Art Online database.
The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms by Michael Clarke
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780199569922
Publication Date: 2001
This reference work provides 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts. Available as an e-book through Oxford Art Online.
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art
Call Number: REF N33 .P68 1971
Publication Date: 1971
A History of Architecture by Spiro Kostof
Call Number: REF NA200 .K65 1985
ISBN: 0195034724
Publication Date: 1985

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