InfoGuides: Asian Art: Find Articles

Recommended Databases

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.
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.

Religion and Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
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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 This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and essays in Religious and Biblical Studies.
China Academic Journals This link opens in a new window
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. Note: 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 This link opens in a new window
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 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.

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.
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.
Art Bulletin
Leading journal for art history research and scholarship, for all areas and periods in art.
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).