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    Art Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on Art and Art History: 700-779.9

    Full-Text Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for 1360 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Reviews of art exhibitions from newspapers. Roughly from 1980s on.
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • ArtSource At Journals Online
      • Links to journals, magazines, etc. Some with full text. Cannot search for articles.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text fine art journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.

    Indexes with Citations

    • Art Index
      • (Call number: Index 701.6 A784); located in the Index section of the Reference area.
      • Vol. 1 (1929) to present.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    General Resources

    • The Dictionary of Art. Turner, Jane, ed. 34 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
      • (Call number: R 703 D554)
      • Major reference work.
    • The Getty
      • Information on art, art history, artists, and conservation. Includes:
      • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
        Search for about 1,000,000 place names. Includes vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information.
      • Provenance Index Databases
        Search for information about the provenance of individual works of art.
    • Online Resources (University of Virginia Fine Arts Library)
      • Lots of useful links.
    • Scholarly Societies-Fine Arts (University of Waterloo)

    Art History

    Art Terms

     

    Artists

    • Artcyclopedia
      • Links to sites where the artist's works can be viewed online. Searchable.
    • The Dictionary of Art. Turner, Jane, ed. 34 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
      • (Call number: R 703 D554)
      • Includes a short bibliography. Standard reference work.
    • Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (The Getty)
      • Search for names of artists and architects, including variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants. About 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 artists are in the database.

    Iconography and Symbols
    (Call numbers: 001.56; 302.22; 704.9)

    • ICONCLASS (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
      • A numeric iconographic classification system used for describing the subjects of a work of art.
    • SYMBOLS.com: Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
      • Online version of Carl G Liungman's book Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols--Western Ideograms (1995).
    • The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols. Udo Becker. Trans. Lance W. Garmer. New York: Continuum, 1994.
      • (Call number: R 302.22203 B396)
    • Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Being Depicted in Works of Art. Ed. Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
      • (Call number: R 704.903  E56)
    • Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art. James Hall. HarperCollins, 1994.
      • (Call number: 704.94603 H177)

    Directories of Art Galleries and Museums

    • MUSEE
      • Links to all types of museums. Good site.
    • MuseumNet
      • Great Britain only.
    • Virtual Library museum pages
      • Links to all types of museums. Good site.
    • Official Museum Directory. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums.
      • (Call number: R 069.025 O32). Annual publication.
      • U.S. museums only.

    Baltimore Art Galleries and Museums

    Washington D.C. Art Galleries and Museums

    Major Art Galleries and Museums in the World
    Only major museums with decent Web sites are included in this list.

    Online Collections of Art Images

    • ArtServe (Australian National University)
      • Images of arts and architecture, mostly from Europe, Australia and Japan.
    • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
      • Includes the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (French art) and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (other national schools). Their searchable Thinker Imagebase will eventually have their entire collection online.
    • International Poster Collection (Colorado State University)
      • Poster entries from the Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, 1995 to present. Also includes biographical information on artists. Searchable.
    • State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
    • Individual museums may also have portions of their collections online.

    Photography
    Dewey call numbers for books on Photography: 770-779

    Art Search Engines