InfoGuides: ARTH 600: Art Research Methods: Find Articles

Key Art Databases

These databases can help you to find in-depth information on your topic or artist including exhibition reviews, scholarly articles, interviews, and other critical analysis.

Art and Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Provides full text access to journals and books; an image collection, art reproduction records, and includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch. Designed for art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
Tutorial for the Art and Architecture Source database.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art from traditional to new media.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) This link opens in a new window
Includes information for design and crafts, from textiles and ceramics to vehicle design, advertising and sustainability. Covers journal articles, exhibition reviews and news items from 1973 to the present.
Tutorial for the Design and Applied Arts Index database.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. Contains new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Tutorial for the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text database.

Key Art History Journals

These journals cover a broad scope of subjects related to fine art, design, and art history, and can help to provide an overview of the contemporary issues in the fine arts.

Art Journal Open
Publishes artist’s projects, scholarly essays, conversations and interviews, artifacts of materials and process, and news items. (open access, available online)
Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal for research and scholarship on 20th and 21st century visual culture and fine art.
Oxford Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal of critical art history, with a focus on political analysis of visual art, covering themes from Antiquity through contemporary practices.
Art Bulletin
Leading journal for art history research and scholarship, for all areas and periods in art.
Artforum International
Monthly magazine with focus on contemporary art, including exhibition previews, reviews, and artist features. Online and print versions available at Fenwick Library.
Burlington Magazine
Journal for art historians and connoisseurs, covering all time periods and places. NOTE: Online articles only available up to 2013. The library has a print subscription for the most recent issues.
Art in America
Features articles on major achievements & events throughout the art world, particularly in painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking. Available online and in print at Fenwick Library.
Art History
Peer reviewed journal - publishes essays, critical reviews, and special issues that engage with path-breaking new developments and critical debate in current art-historical practice.

Selected Art History Journals

These journals cover a broad scope of subjects and time periods in art history, fine art, design, and crafts, and can help to provide an overview of issues in the discipline.

Art Bulletin
Leading journal for art history research and scholarship, for all areas and periods in art.
Art History
Peer reviewed journal - publishes essays, critical reviews, and special issues that engage with path-breaking new developments and critical debate in current art-historical practice.
Oxford Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal of critical art history, with a focus on political analysis of visual art, covering themes from Antiquity through contemporary practices.
Art Journal Open
Publishes artist’s projects, scholarly essays, conversations and interviews, artifacts of materials and process, and news items. (open access, available online)
Burlington Magazine
Journal for art historians and connoisseurs, covering all time periods and places. NOTE: Online articles only available up to 2013. The library has a print subscription for the most recent issues.
Artforum International
Monthly magazine with focus on contemporary art, including exhibition previews, reviews, and artist features. Online and print versions available at Fenwick Library.

Art, Antiquity, and Law
Focuses on the law governing art and antiquities, and the policies behind the law. Available online.
Antike Kunst
Peer reviewed journal of Classical art and archaeology. JSTOR has online, full-text articles through 2012; most recent issues available in print at Fenwick Library. (Hint: you can use Avery Index to search citations for articles). Article language can vary between English, German, Italian, and French.
Ars Orientalis
Peer reviewed journal covering the history of the art and archaeology of the Middle East and Asia. Issues through 2014 are available online; most recent issues available in print at Fenwick Library.

Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal publishes different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses that explore recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas
Archives of Asian Art
Peer reviewed journal devoted to the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting.
Renaissance Quarterly
Peer reviewed journal - the leading American journal of Renaissance studies, encouraging connections between different scholarly approaches to bring together material spanning the period from 1300 to 1700 in Western history.

African Arts
Peer reviewed journal - presents original research and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures.
Afterall
Peer reviewed journal of contemporary art, providing a forum for in-depth analysis of art's context and seeking to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change.
Artforum International
Monthly magazine with focus on contemporary art, including exhibition previews, reviews, and artist features. Online and print versions available at Fenwick Library.
Art and AsiaPacific
Peer reviewed journal - promotes fresh dialogue on the contemporary visual arts of the Asia/Pacific region & provides analysis & comment on the contemporary issues & art practices of the region.
Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal for research and scholarship on 20th and 21st century visual culture and fine art.
Burlington Contemporary
Published by Burlington Magazine, this platform concentrates on reviews and original research on contemporary art.
Art in America
Features articles on major achievements & events throughout the art world, particularly in painting, sculpture, photography and printmaking. Available online and in print at Fenwick Library.