Research Guides: Art and Art History: Articles

Search for Art and Art History Scholarly Articles

These are some databases that you can use to search for scholarly articles about art and related fields. For a complete list of Art and Architecture Databases, go to library.nyu.edu, Databases, and then select Art and Architecture from the Subject drop down menu.

Art and Architecture Source
Art & Architecture Source is an essential research database for peer-reviewed, full-text art and architecture journals with coverage dating back to 1914. Subjects include fine, decorative, and commercial art, as well as architecture, landscape, urban planning, and architectural design. With strong international coverage, including periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, it offers hundreds of full-text art journals, magazines, and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts, and thousands of images. It also includes the contents of Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984), formerly called Art Source.
ProQuest Art, Design and Architecture Collection
A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, the Art, Design & Architecture Collection includes ProQuest's specialist indexes ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) (covering modern and contemporary art), Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) (for all aspects of design and crafts), and International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (covering scholarship on western art history), together with a complementary collection of current full-text journals from ProQuest's Arts & Humanities Database.

Search for Artist Biographies

Artists of the World Online
Artists of the World Online contains reference works on artists' biographies. It includes content from Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online (AKL) and essays on visual artists, architects, and designers active from antiquity through the present day. Scroll down on database homepage to access PDF version of abbreviation key.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online allows searching across both the Benezit Dictionary of Artists and Grove Art Online. The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is a standard reference collection of artists' biographies. It is international in scope, and covers all periods and styles. In addition to biographies, many entries include bibliographies, auction sales data, and images of signatures, monograms, or other marks of identification. Grove Art Online is composed of signed, scholarly encyclopedia entries on all aspects of global art, design and architecture. Individual articles are updated periodically, and new articles reflecting contemporary developments in the arts are added on a regular basis.

Popular Art Periodicals

Popular art periodicals can be great resources for information on contemporary artists, exhibition reviews, and art auctions. Click on each one and then use the "search within this publication" feature to search for individual articles by keyword. You can also search all of these simultaneously by using the database Art and Architecture Source.

Specialized Art Databases

Interaction of Color Complete Digital Edition
This complete digital edition of Josef Albers' classic text "Interaction of Color" is packed with features that help you to explore the book’s ideas and experiment with color.

Features include navigation between text, commentary, and 122 of the original edition's plates, access to archival audio and video of Josef Albers leading you through special exercises, and the ability to create and share your own version of interactive plates.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Educational Streaming
The Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming online catalog provides access to full-length streaming videos for selected artists from EAI's full collection. EAI is a nonprofit arts organization whose core program is the distribution and preservation of historical video works by artists. The collection spans from the mid-1960's to the present.
China Research Gateway
The China Research Gateway (CRG) database is a centralized means for discovery and access to an array of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, and dissertations. Contains CNKI databases, including China Academic Journals and many others.Includes China Art Digital Library.

Search for Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations and theses are great resources because of their extensive bibliographies on a particular subject, which can lead you to relevant resources. These databases can be used to search for dissertations or theses as well as to decide if your thesis or dissertation idea is original.

College Art Association Dissertation List
Once a year, each institution granting the PhD in art history and/or visual studies submits dissertation titles to CAA. Each entry identifies the student’s name, dissertation title, school, and advisor.

Dissertations & Theses Global
Indexes dissertations and some theses published through Proquest. Full-text is available for many of them but not all.
Dialnet
Dialnet indexes scholarship primarily from the Hispanic world in the form of articles, dissertations, book reviews, and conference proceedings, with a primary emphasis on the humanities, social sciences, and law, as well as publications in the pure and applied sciences. The resource provides links to open-access full-text content when available.
China Doctoral Theses Full-Text Database
CDMD is a comprehensive database of dissertations and theses in China.
Use Internet Explorer, NOT Firefox, to access this database. NYU users have access to (F) Literature/History/Philosophy only.