Art research encompasses art history, painting, drawing, sculpture, artistic photography, design, graphics arts and other related subjects. This subject guide lists selected resources available through the UBC Library and on the web. For addtional help with your research, schedule an appointment with the Art librarian or visit our reference desk in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
UBC Departments Art + Architecture + Planning, UBC Library Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory UBC Okanagan Library Creative and Critical Studies - UBCO
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
For help finding articles, see the UBC Library's Finding Journal Articles guide. To find articles on a topic, begin your research in the indexes/databases listed on this page:
Art Full Text Indexes Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning journals. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed. Art Retrospective Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. ARTbibliographies Modern Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art, installation works, video arts, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, crafts, jewelery, design, illustration, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing, as well as art history and theory. Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) / International Bibliography of Art Covers not only the fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints), but decorative and applied arts, industrial design, popular and folk art, photography, new media and the performing arts as well as material culture of interest to art historians. Design and Applied Arts Index: DAAI 1974- In addition to the periodicals index DAAI contains four directories: periodicals database, education database,organizations database, and museums/archives database. Index of Christian Art 1917- The largest existing database of medieval art, both image and text, for over 23,000 art works from early apostolic times to 1400. Includes manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting and glass. JSTOR Collection The JSTOR database contains backfiles of 100+ journals from a variety of academic disciplines.
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
Electronic JournalsFor a selective list of electronic art journals, browse by subject in the Print and Electronic Journals database. Art, Architecture & Applied Arts For additional titles, browse the Directory of Open Access Journals - Arts and Architecture. Print JournalsFor a selective list of print art journals, search the UBC Library Catalogue by subject heading. Art - Periodicals To find other journals and more specifically articles, please see the Articles tab of this guide.
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias Grove Art Online Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts ArtLex - art dictionary Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages McGraw-Hill dictionary of art Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation Bibliographies Art and architecture in Canada Guide to the literature of art history Directories American art directory International directory of arts Directory of art and design faculties in colleges and universities, U.S. and Canada
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
Electronic theses are available in cIRcle: UBC's Information Repository - Theses and Dissertations. Use the advanced search as shown below. To limit your search to a specific Art program, replace "art" in the above search with art history, art education, fine arts or visual and performing arts. To find theses and dissertations completed at other institutions, search in these databases: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full text Doctoral dissertations: 1861-present; masters theses: 1988-present (selective coverage, since many institutions do not submit masters theses for inclusion). Online abstracts for dissertations available since July 1980, full text since 1997. Theses Canada Portal Indexes Canadian theses and dissertations from 1965 to present. Also provides free access to electronic theses and dissertations harvested monthly from Canadian universities. For general help in finding theses visit the Library's FAQ: Dissertations and Theses.
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
ARTstor A digital library of images, information about the images, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. ARTstor contains over 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. LUNA Commons A digital library of over 300,000 images licensed for educational use at UBC, covering the areas of art, architecture, and material culture. Web Gallery of Art A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassic, and Romantic periods (1000-1850). CyberMuse The National Gallery of Canada's online virtual museum. Wellcome Images A digital image library, with a focus on the role and history of medicine in society. Mark Harden's Artchive A collection of fine arts image scans, with an emphasis on European and North American artists. WebMuseum An online resource for images and a corresponding glossary of fine arts movements. Fondation J.-E Berger A digitized collection of over 100,000 of Jacques-Edouard Berger's slides, taken during trips to Egypt, China, Japan, India, and Europe during the 20th century. World Painting Index Print index available in the AArP reference collection Sculpture Index Print index available in the AArP reference collection
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
19th-Century Art Baroque Art & Architecture British Columbian Art and Artists Canadian Art First Nations Art, Northwest Coast Greek and Roman Art India: Art and Architecture Islamic Art and Architecture Japanese Art Resources (in English) Latin American Art Medieval Art and Architecture Modern Art of the 20th Century Photography Pre-Columbian Art Religious Iconography Renaissance Art and Architecture
Librarians UBC Okanagan Marjorie Mitchell (Okanagan Library) UBC Vancouver Vanessa Kam (Art + Architecture + Planning)
