Research by Subject: Art

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Journals/Magazines

Academic OneFile Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available

1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts:  go/onefile (on campus),  http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).

Art Index (Wilson) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1984-current.  Preceding years covered by Art Index Retrospective.

  • 1984-current -- online.
  • 1929-1984 - Art Index Retrospective - online
  • 1929-1995 - in print - N2 .A78

Note: Wilson

Arts and Humanities Search Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide.  Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current.

Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available Resource contains images

Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).

Project Muse Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available

Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.  Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).

Web Sites

Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

A collection of web links useful to art scholars at all levels. Sponsored and maintained by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of the History of Art Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present in publications since 1973.
 

Biographical Information

Biography Reference Bank Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available Resource contains images

Coverage dates: Ancient times to present
Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, and obituaries. It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images.

Union List of Artist Names Online (ULAN) Unrestricted Resource WebBridge enabled

A part of The Getty Vocabularies, ULAN is intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture. The ULAN includes proper names and associated information about artists. 

Dictionaries

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

The AAT, a part of The Getty Vocabularies, is intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture. The AAT contains generic terms to describe these subjects. The AAT contains no iconographic subjects and no proper names. 

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Unrestricted Resource WebBridge enabled

The TGN, a part of the Getty vocabularies, includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). Current and historical places are included.

Encyclopedias

Artcyclopedia Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available Resource contains images

A guide to artists, art works, and museums on the internet.

Oxford Art Online Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available

Contains Grove Art Online, today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) – the landmark reference work containing more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies and 500,000 bibliographical citations) contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. Grove Art Online is maintained with a regular update program to articles and bibliographies.

Also provides access to The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Images

ARTStor Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Resource contains images

 ARTStor is a non-profit initiative with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. It is: 

  • A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; The tools to actively use those images; and
  • A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

 

Journals/Magazines of the Period

Art Index Retrospective (Wilson) Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

Comprehensive index to art criticism, 1929-1984.

Indexes art journals, magazines, bulletins and film reviews from 1929-=1984.  Subsequent years covered by Art Index Retrospective.

  • 1984-current - Art Index -- online.
  • 1929-1984  - Art Index Retrospective - online
  • 1929-1995  - in print -  N2 .A78

 

Style and Citation Guides

Middlebury Style & Citation Guides Unrestricted Resource

This webpage links to many resources pertaining to how to format your paper's footnotes, bibliographies and more.

RefWorks Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of over 400 styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and more.... For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu