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Key Art History Databases

What's in these databases?

These databases index the content of fine art and art history journals, and can provide you with citations or full-text access to scholarly articles, book reviews, primary sources, images, and more.

Art and Architecture Source
Recommended resource. Find articles on a broad range of art and design topics, as well as images and art reproduction records.
Art & Architecture Archive
Full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. View a tutorial on this database here.
Historical Abstracts
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Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature from 1955 to present (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America. Note: with full-text links to 420,000 journals on JSTOR.
View a tutorial on this database here.
JSTOR
Find articles from subjects across the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science. Includes historic publications and primary sources. Good for finding historic exhibition reviews - for example, the 1913 Armory Show.
ProQuest Arts Databases
This provides you with a single-search to look in multiple arts databases, including: ArtBibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, and the Vogue Archive.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Find architecture research, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.
*Limited full-text article access. Use the "MasonLink" button to find the full article through other online or print sources.

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 peer-reviewed 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)

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.
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.
Artforum International
Monthly magazine with focus on contemporary art, including exhibition previews, reviews, and artist features. Online and print versions available at Fenwick Library.
October
Peer-reviewed journal. October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation.
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 Gallery.
Art Journal
Peer reviewed journal for research and scholarship on 20th and 21st century visual culture and fine art.