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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
Design & Applied Arts Index currently contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals
published since 1973 with most articles from 1987 to present, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making the largest database of its kind in the world.
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.
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.
