Honors 200: Portraiture and Self: Library Research Resources | Art & Portraiture
Research resources for portrait comparison research paper.
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 Online
Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove Art Online, 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.
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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 Provides access to journal articles, books, images, and primary sources. Contents include the Artstor image collection, archival and current scholarly journal content, and historical documents.
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Project Muse Provides digital humanities and social sciences content with full text access to 350 journals and select full text access to ebooks. Limit to subscribed full text using the advanced search and selecting, "Only content I have access to". Why can't I access some of this content?
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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
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 376438140XPublication Date: 2007-12-07Provides a categorical foundation for an international discourse on design.
Helpful eBooks
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Portrayal and the Search for Identity
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