Art History

Access full-text journals, dissertations, and art reproductions related to fine and commercial art, photography, film, and architecture, with expert indexing for scholarly research.

Indexes articles on artfrom periodicals, yearbooks, & museum bulletins, including reproductions of works of art. References paintings used as illustrations for articles or ads, listing the works under the artists' names with full citations.

Coverage: 1975 - 2007
Covers European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

Comprehensive resource for design and crafts, including textiles, ceramics, vehicle design, advertising, and sustainability. Features journal articles, exhibition reviews, and news from 1973 to present.

Provides a comprehensive guide to art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and agents from multiple national and historical contexts. This digital resource is designed to serve the expanding research areas of art market studies, art historiography and provenance research.

A dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Peer-reviewed content includes major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world. 

A digital resource dedicated to historiography and the examination of historical theory and methods using a global approach, featuring scholarship in the form of exclusive articles contributed by historians from many different countries.

A gateway resource that includes: Grove Art Online, a reference for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the 1990s; The Oxford Companion to Western Art; The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Covers information on artists, worldwide art, artistic techniques, and other art-related topics.

A guide to scholarly literature in the field of art and architectural history, covering major categories of research with bibliographies and recommended resources.

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Classical Studies, providing access to essential primary sources and electronic resources.

Explore millions of high-quality, curated images from global museums, archives, and artists. Includes publicly accessible files from JSTOR’s journals and primary sources.

Streaming access to plays, musicals, dance performances, documentaries, masterclasses, and behind-the-scenes content that supports research and learning in theater and the performing arts.

Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest award-winning early cinema, foreign cinema and Hollywood films from around the world. This collection includes 590 films, presented uncut, as its maker intended it to be seen.

A collection of over 1,600 streaming videos, including documentaries and series covering a wide range of topics such as science, history, art, and business from one of television’s most trusted networks.

Archive of adult-oriented comic books and graphic novels from underground and independent publishers worldwide, complemented by interviews, commentary, theory and criticism that trace the art form’s cultural evolution.

Free virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.

A collection of retail and visual displays dating back to 1931, offering photos for competitive research, inspiration, and trend ideas for retailers, designers, and creative professionals to enhance today's retail environments.

Features unique and rare eighteenth-century periodicals from archives in the UK and the US, showcasing the diversity and evolution of publishing between 1685 and 1835. While primarily UK-based, it also includes publications from other English-speaking regions like India.

A comprehensive archive offers digitized versions of the U.S. and U.K. editions of Harper's Bazaar from 1867 to present, featuring high-resolution images and searchable texts, providing deep insights and detailed indexing of over 150 years of fashion, culture, and societal trends.

Searchable archive of American Vogue from 1892 to the present, featuring high-resolution color images of articles, ads, covers, and fold-outs, with detailed indexing for garment types, designers, and brands.

The complete archive of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) from 1910 onward, with high-resolution images of articles, ads, and covers, offering a primary source on fashion, retail, and business history.

Historical and primary-source materials documenting disability culture, activism, and policy, with multimedia content illustrating the evolution of the Disability Rights Movement and disability theory.

Covers key events, trends and events in America from 1960 to 1974 through letters, diaries, oral histories, and newsreel footage.