Research Guides: Art and Art History: Articles and Databases

Searching for Dissertations and Theses

Archäologischer Anzeiger
The Archäologische Anzeiger (AA) publishes short articles on current research and reports on excavation projects by the DAI and by colleagues from around the world. The magazine mainly provides information on topics from the Mediterranean region from prehistory to late antiquity, but also about projects outside the core area of the Old World.
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 for publication. The most recently published list is from 2018. You can browse by listing date or by subject matter. Each entry identifies the student’s name, dissertation title, school, and advisor.

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.
Dissertations & Theses Global
Indexes dissertations and some theses. Full-text is available for many of them.Dissertations and theses are also good resources when searching for extensive bibliographies on a subject, or trying to decide if you thesis or dissertation idea is original.
Dissertations of China
Dissertations of China (DOC) contains information on research activities by graduate students and their graduate supervisors in China. The database includes Masters, Doctoral, and Post-doctoral dissertations and theses from key Chinese research institutions from 1980 onward.

NYU subscribes to the following categories: Philosophy/Politics/Law, Social Sciences, Economics/Finance, Education/Literature/Art.

Art and Art History -- Databases

For a complete list of Art and Architecture Databases, go to library.nyu.edu, Articles and Databases, and then select Art and Architecture.

ARTbibliographies Modern
Excellent starting point for research in 19th and 20th century art, architecture, and design. Provides indexing to periodicals, books, exhibition catalogs and dissertations from 1984 to the present. Articles are abstracted from 500 major international art, photography and design journals and museum bulletins. Abstracts of articles in foreign journals are provided in English.
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.

Bibliography of the History of Art : BHA and RILA
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals and covers the years 1990-2007. RILA includes all records with abstracts in English and covers 1975-1989.

International Bibliography of Art
2008 - present. Picks up where Bibliography of the History of Art ends.
Design and Applied Arts Index
Design and Applied Arts Index covers journal articles, exhibition reviews, and news published from 1973 to the present. DAAI surveys disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.
Oxford Art Online - Grove Art Online
Oxford Art Online - 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.
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.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism
Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism brings together interdisciplinary content about the Modernist period. Users can discover articles that are organized by theme, artistic movement, or place.

Studi Etruschi Journal
The journal of the National Institute of Etruscan and Italic Studies. Online access to this journal for NYU students, faculty, and staff is only accessible via this proxied link. You will be prompted to login with your NYU Net ID.

Popular Art Periodicals

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

Have a broad research topic?

EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) encompasses articles in databases across many disciplines. Users can locate peer reviewed articles, videos, audio files, images, and more from a range of subjects.