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Full-text articles from an international array of peer-selected publications, as well as coverage of Latin American...
Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art. Includes full text of articles from more than 300 periodicals as far back as 1995 and indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals and over 18,000 art dissertations
The International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the definitive resource for scholarly literature
on western art, and is published exclusively by ProQuest. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA.
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture,
decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Topics include, artist biographies, patrons, writers, cultures, countries, towns, styles, movements, theories, subject matters, iconography and more.
Artura is a growing open access (free) database of materials related to BIPOC artists. From the site: "Artura.org is the world's first free online database of contemporary art from diverse artists. Our mission is to unlock the richness of our culture by making diverse art freely accessible online, especially to the academic, curatorial, and education communities."
ArtxHistory is a space facilitated by institutions, historians, curators, artists, faculty and students who are committed to deliver quality scholarship that is accessible, inclusive and open. Co-facilitators are encouraged to reach us to share content or assist in the growth of this framework
From website: The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum's collection
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Topics include, artist biographies, patrons, writers, cultures, countries, towns, styles, movements, theories, subject matters, iconography and more. Access to over 100,000 art images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Links to images elsewhere on the web.
