Art History
- Databases
- Journals
- Reference Sources
- Associations
- Local Museum and Library Web Sites
- Special Topics:
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General
Ancient World
Architecture
Art of the Americas
Decorative Arts
Medieval and Renaissance Art
Modern Art
Photography
- Tip Sheets for Art Full
Text, Grove Art, etc.
Databases available at the Graduate Center
| Academic Search Premier | over 4,600 journals more |
| Art Full Text | full text of Art Index more |
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals | index from 1741 to present more info |
| Bibliography of the History of Art | index from 1973 to present more info |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete | over 200 journals more |
| Dissertation Abstracts | citations, abstracts, recent text more |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | 200 reference books more |
| Grove Art | art encyclopedia more |
| Humanities Abstracts | indexes journals since 1984 more |
| Humanities International Index | indexes over 1,900 sources more |
| JSTOR | 420 scholarly journals more |
| NetLibrary | 2,594 scholarly books more |
| Oxford English Dictionary | complete second edition more |
| Oxford Reference Online | over 100 reference works more |
| Project Muse | over 240 scholarly journals more |
| WorldCat | holdings of thousands of libraries more |
Unrestricted, Open-Access Databases
Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online (Getty Research Institute)
Directory of Open Access Journals
Film Literature Index
George Eastman House Catalog
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Research Institute)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Research Institute)
Databases at New York Public Library
NYPL Online
Databases and Indexes--Art and Architecture
Journals
- Subject list of electronic journals in art, architecture, and photography
- Subject list of electronic journals in film
Searchable alphabetical list of electronic journals in all subjects - CUNY+ search for Graduate Center print journals in art
- CUNY+ search for Graduate Center print journals in architecture
- CUNY search for Graduate Center print journals in photography
Reference Sources
- CUNY+ search for Graduate Center reference books in art
- CUNY+ search for Graduate Center reference books in architecture
- CUNY+ search for Graduate Center reference books in film
- CUNY+ search for Graduate Center reference books in photography
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon : die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. (Saur). GC Ref N40. A63 1992
Allgemeines lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der antike bis zur gegenwart. (Thieme-Becker). GC Ref N40 .T4 1968
American art directory. GC Ref N50.A54
Art books: a basic bibliography of monographs on artists.
GC Ref N40.A4 1997
Bibliography of the history of art. GC Ref Z5937.B53
Bibliography on portraiture. GC Ref Z5939.H465 1990
Dictionary of architecture. GC Ref NA31.C86 1999
Dictionary of art. GC Ref N31.D5 1996
Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art. (Hall). GC Ref N7560 .H34 1974
Dictionary of women artists. GC Ref N8354.D53 1997
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et
graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. (Benezit). GC Ref N40 .B47 1976
International directory of arts. GC Ref N50.I6
Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990s
GC Ref NX650.M9 R45
Who's who in American art. GC Ref N6536.W5
Worldwide bibliography of art exhibition catalogues, 1963-1987.
GC Ref Z5939.W675 1992
Associations
American Association of MuseumsAmerican Institute of Architects
Art Libraries Society of North America
Association of Art Historians
Association of Art Museum Directors
CHArt: Computers and the History of Art
College Art Association
Institute of International Visual Arts
International Center for Medieval Art
International Council of Museums
Society of Architectural Historians
Visual Resources Association
Local Museum and Library Web Sites
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library (Columbia Univ.)Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Dahesh Museum
Dia Art Foundation
Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
Grey Art Gallery (New York Univ.)
Guggenheim Museum
Hispanic Society of America
International Center of Photography
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Jewish Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of the Moving Image
Morgan Library
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Museo del Barrio
National Academy of Design
Neue Galerie: Museum for German and Austrian Art
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Queens Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Special Topics
General
Art History Resources on the
Web (Sweet Briar College)
Timeline of Art History
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
NYPL Digital Gallery (New York Public Library)
Ancient World
ABZU (Guide to open access data on the Ancient Near East)
Perseus Digital Library (Primary and secondary sources relating to Ancient Greece and Rome)
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean
to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Architecture
American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 (Library of Congress)
Architecture (Univ.
of California, Santa Barbara)
Architecture and
Interior Design for 20th Century America (Library of Congress)
Built in America:
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record,
1933-Present (Library of Congress)
Digital Archive of Architecture (Boston College)
Graveley Gorgeous:
Gargoyles, Grotesques, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination (Cornell Univ.)
International Archive of Women in
Architecture (Virginia Tech Univ.)
Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931
(New York Public Library)
Resources in
Architecture (Vassar College)
SPIRO:
Architecture Visual Resources Library Image Database (Univ. of
California, Berkeley)
Triumph of
the Baroque: Architecture in Europe, 1600-1750 (National Gallery)
Art of the Americas
Panoramas:
The North American Landscape in Art (Virtual Museum of Canada)
Making of America (Cornell Univ.)
Making of America (Univ. of Michigan)
Emergence of Advertising in
America: 1850-1920 (Duke Univ.)
Ancient Mexico: The Art, Culture, and
History of Ancient Mesoamerica
Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists (Smithsonian)
Humanities in Latin America (Latin American Network Information Center
Sources and General Resources on Latin America (Oberlin College)
Decorative Arts
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Medieval and Renaissance Art
The Italians:
Three Centuries of Italian Art (National Gallery of Australia)
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
(National Library of the Netherlands)
Victorian Art
Victorian Studies Bibliography (University of Indiana)
Modern Art
Modernism (Minneapolis
Institute of Arts)
Portraiture
Oxford Portraits (Oxford University)
Photography
America from the
Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs from the
FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 (Library of Congress)
The Empire That Was Russia:
The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (Library of Congress)
The Face of Slavery
and Other Early Images of African Americans (American Museum of
Photography)
Images of African
Americans from the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
Masterworks of
Photography (American Museum of Photography)
New York Public Library Picture
Collection
Through the Lens of
Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs
(Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
USDA Historical Photographs
(U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Online Catalog