Consult Oxford Art Online for detailed overviews of artists, art movements and much more -- a good resource to generate keywords for searching in other databases
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Oxford Art OnlineOxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists. PLEASE NOTE: The UWM Libraries has 3 simultaneous users for this service. If you can not access the service please try again later.
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Grove Art Online Subject Entry for: PORTRAITURE: A good place to start for an overview!
Art or practice of making portraits. Although many of the general points made in this article apply to all forms of portraiture, its focus is mainly on Western portrait painting.
Best Bets: Art History-Related Journal Databases
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Art Full Text Art Full Text covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
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JSTOR COVID-19 Extended Access Resource (JSTOR has temporarily activated all archive and primary source collections until June 30, 2022.) JSTOR archives and provides access to archival and current issues of more than 2,400 scholarly journals across more than 60 academic disciplines (title lists) along with a growing number of open access ebooks. The UW-Milwaukee Libraries have acquired access to JSTOR collections Arts and Sciences I-VIII and the subject collections for Biological Sciences, Jewish Studies and Ireland.
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Project Muse Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. UWM has full text access to over 29,000 ebooks and 350 journals. Searching can be limited to subscribed full text access by choosing the books or journals tab and checking off a full text access box.
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Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
Online Art & Design Dictionaries
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Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art Terms | eBook
An accessible and useful A-Z, covering a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.
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Design Dictionary: Perspectives on Design Terminology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 376438140XPublication Date: 2007-12-07Provides a categorical foundation for an international discourse on design.
eBooks @ UWM
Consult this eBooks @ UWM Library Guide to maximize finding and using eBooks from the UWM Libraries collections.
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eBooks @ UWMA guide to finding and using eBooks from the UWM Libraries collections -- thousands of eBooks across all disciplines.
Helpful eBooks
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Portrayal and the Search for Identity by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1299191134Publication Date: 2013-01-01 -
