InfoGuides: Asian Art: Find Articles

Recommended Databases

Art and Architecture Source
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.
JSTOR
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.

Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for about 250 scholarly journals. Covers world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Religion Database
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in Religious and Biblical Studies.
China Academic Journals
Collects full-text Chinese journals dating back to the start year of each journal. All content is Chinese language but access uses English or Chinese language interfaces. Collections include Education/Social Sciences, Literature/History/Philosophy, Economy & Management, and Politics/Military Affairs/Law. Full-text access up through 2020 if content is available, and through present for articles in Politics/Military Affairs/Law.

World Newspaper Archive, South Asia
Features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during the colonial era, 1864-1922. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka). Languages include English, Bengali, and Gujarati.

Recommended Journals

These journals primarily cover the arts, architecture, religion, and history of Asia. For more general art history journals and sources, see the Art History research guide.

Journal of the American Oriental Society
Features significant original scholarship from specialists in the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Available through multiple databases for different date ranges: use JSTOR for articles published from 1843-2020 and Proquest Central for articles published after 2020.
Artibus Asiae
Original scholarly articles, research notes, and book reviews devoted to the history of art and archaeology of Asia.
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.
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.
Journal of Asian Studies
JAS publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is one of the principal outlets for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, East Timor, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam).
MĀRG
Information on arts and architecture in India and related civilizations
ArtAsiaPacific
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.