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Arts & Humanities : Art & Art History
Core Resources
These pages are intended to help undergraduates find their way to basic resources.
If you need more help, contact me or ask for assistance at the Reference Desk in Ellis Library.
Use the tabs at the top to find more information.
Art Full Text - not everything is full-text. Good for contemporary artists and exhibitions.
ARTStor - go here for images
Avery Index - architecture, gardens, interior decoration
Bibliography of the History of Art - scholarly journals
Camio - another place for images
JSTOR - a full-text archive of scholarly journals.
Databases for Articles
Databases for Art & Art History
Art Full Text ![]()
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Art Index citations to articles and book reviews in about 270 periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. Includes archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, film, industrial and interior design, and photography. [more]
ARTStor ![]()
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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. [more]
Avery Index ![]()
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Avery Index indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation. Coverage is from the early 1930's to date. [more]
Bibliography of the History of Art ![]()
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Bibliography of the History of Art covers the current literature of European art from the 4th century to the present, and of North and South American art from the European discovery of the Americas to the present. [more]
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Also Known as: Catalog of Art Museum Images OnlineCAMIO offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. There are about 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. [more]
Dictionary of Modern Design ![]()
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Oxford Art Online includes Grove Art Online, Oxford companion to Western art, Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms, and Encyclopedia of aesthetics. Grove Art Online provides access to over 45,000 signed articles, 21,000 biographies, and 5000 searchable and embedded images. [more]
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A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 4-5 years of the present. [more]
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L'Annee Philologique covers all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world. It covers a broad range of subjects from language and literature to history, archaeology and more. [more]
Journals
Journals for Art & Art HistoryTips for finding journals and journal articles
Browse Journals on Art History ![]()
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- Looking for a specific article or journal? Try the Journal/Article Finder
- Need to search for articles by keyword or topic? Try Databases in the Databases tab
eBooks / Books
eBooks / Books for Art & Art HistoryTips for finding books
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ![]()
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Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms ![]()
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Dictionary of Art ![]()
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34 volumes covering art worldwide. Excellent place to start. Will give you a good overview and provide you with an bibliography if you need more information. Covers artists, artistic styles and movements. Also has excellent articles on art of individual countries.
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ![]()
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Fine Arts: A bibliographic guide to basic research works, histories, and handbooks ![]()
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Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture ![]()
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Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ![]()
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Oxford Companion to Archaeology ![]()
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Oxford Companion to the Garden ![]()
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Oxford Companion to the Photograph ![]()
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Oxford Companion to Western Art ![]()
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Oxford Dictionary of Art ![]()
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- Looking for a specific book? Try the Book Finder
- The Book Finder first searches in the MERLIN catalog.
- If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
- Need to search for a book by keyword or topic? Search the MERLIN catalog
