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Telephone: 808-956-7214
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Collection Development Librarian for Art

Theodore Kwok / 808-956-2528 / tedk@hawaii.edu

Hamilton Library
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822

 

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Find Articles and Journals

 

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals.

 

ARTbibliographies Modern
ArtBibliographies Modern provides bibliographic access to over 500 major art journals, museum bulletins, exhibition catalogs and books covering all aspects of 20th Century modern and contemporary art.

 

Art Abstracts
Art Abstracts is a bibliographic database covering topics such as advertising art, antiques, architecture, computers, fashion, graphics, industrial design, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video from periodicals published throughout the world. Comprehensive abstracting and indexing is included for 378 international art publications such as periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Abstracts date as far back as January 1994 to the present, and indexing dates back as far as September 1984 to the present. This database is produced by the H.W. Wilson Company.

 

ARTStor
A digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

 

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is "the nation's most comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture." It provides citations to articles on the history and practice of architecture, historic preservation, interior design and city planning.

 

DAAI - Design and Applied Arts Index
Design & Applied Arts Index (DAAI) covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.

 

eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files) Collection of Ethnography
eHRAF (electronic Human Relations Area Files) Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains full-text information (e.g., books, journal articles, and dissertations) on world cultures. It includes indexes by ethnic group and topics. The database is useful for all disciplines concerned with cultural and social life.
Click here for a list of Hawaii titles available digitally through eHRAF

 

The Grove Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text ofThe Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.). Include: extensive coverage of Art from civilizations and cultures of the world; 45,000+ signed articles on the visual arts from prehistory through the present, covering both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more); 500,000+ bibliographical citations which can be searched independently or with the text; 30,000+ links to color images from high-quality museum and other art sites; 100,000+ images from The Bridgeman Art Library; 21,000+ biographies (of artists, architects, patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers, and scholars) by birth/death dates, places, nationality and occupation (in addition to name searches). NOTE:Only 1 user allowed at one time. If you cannot login, try again later.

 

 


Find Dissertations and Books

 

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.

 

Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.

 

New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.

 

 


Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

 

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Surveys
Indexes, Abstracts, and Bibliographies
Directories and Guides
Research Guides


DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND SURVEYS


The Dictionary of Art
Hamilton Main Reference N31 .D5 1996
Also available online

The Random House Library of Painting and Sculpture
Hamilton Main Reference N5300 .R24

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists
Hamilton Main Reference N33 .T53 1994

Encyclopedia of World Art
Hamilton Main Reference N31 .E533


INDEXES, ABSTRACTS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES


Art Databases - UHM

Art Index
Hamilton Main Reference N1 .A79
Also available Online

ArtBibliographies Modern
Hamilton Main Reference N1 .A1 L66
Also available Online

Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Location: Hamilton Main Reference
Call Number: N7425 .N49

Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA=Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'arte
Hamilton Main Reference N1 .A1 B52

Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie
Hamilton Main Reference N2 .R47

RILA, Repertoire international de la litterature de l'art/International Repertory of the Literature of Art
Hamilton Main Reference N1 .R47


DIRECTORIES AND GUIDES


American Art Directory
Hamilton Main Reference N50 .A54

Art in America Annual guide to galleries, museums, artists.
Hamilton Main Reference N1 .A43


RESEARCH GUIDES


Art Information: Research Methods and Resources. 3rd ed.
Hamilton Main Reference N85 .J64 1990

The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources. 4th ed.
Hamilton Main Reference AZ221 .B53 199

 

 


Selected Journals for Art

 

The following is a list of periodicals indexed in Art Index for which UHM Library has a current subscription. Art Index indexes not only periodicals on art, but also on architecture, archaeology, film, and photography. Please note the library also subscribes to a large number of periodicals not indexed in Art Index. You may do a 'Journal Title' search in the library catalog for a specific periodical or by subject for periodicals on a topic, for example, 'art periodicals'..

 

Abitare

NK1700 .A24

African Arts

N7380 .A47

American Antiquity

E51 .A52

The American Art Journal

N1 .A54

American Artist

N1 .A243

American Ceramics

NK4005 .A46

American Cinematographer

TR845 .A46

American Craft

NK1 .C73

American Journal of Archaeology

CC1 .A6 ser.2

American Photo

Closed

TR1 .A5683

Antiquity

CC1 .A7

Aperture

Closed

TR1 .A62

Apollo (London)

N1 .A255

Archaeology

GN700 .A725

Architects' Journal

NA1 .A55

Architectura

NA3 .A72

Architectural Design (London)

NA1 .A35

Architectural Digest

NA1 .A38

Architectural Record

NA1 .A6

The Architectural Review

NA1 .A69

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui

NA2 .A7

L'Architettura

NA4 .A787 n.s.

Archives of American Art Journal

N11 .A64

Archives of Asian Art

Asia

N11 .C33 A3

Ars Orientalis

Asia

N7260 .A7

The Art Bulletin

N11 .A7

Art History

N7480 .A77

Art in America

N1 .A43

Art Journal

N81 .A7

Art News

N1 .A6

Artforrm

N1 .A75

Artibus Asiae

Asia

N8 .A76

Arts and the Islamic World

NX688 .A1 A78

Arts of Asia

Asia

N8 .A772

Asian Art and Culture

Asia

N7262 .A877

Biblical Archaeologist

BS620 .A1 B5

Bollettino d'Arte

N4 .B6

The British Journal of Aesthetics

BH1 .B7

British Journal of Photography

TR1 .B8

Bulletin Monumental

N2 .B95

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

DS41 .A5

Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Art

N560 . A42

Bulletin (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

N685 .A45

The Burlington Magazine

N1 .B95

Cahiers du Cinema

PN1993 .C25

Camera Obscura

PN1995.9 .W6 C28

The Canadian Architect

NA1 .C29

Casabella

NA4 .C3

Ceramics Monthly

Closed

NK3700 .C46

Cineaste

Closed

PN1993 .C518

Communication Arts Magazine

Closed

NC997 .A1 C23

Design Book Review

NA2599.9 D47

Design Issues

NK1160 .D45

Design Quarterly

NK1 .E9

Design Studies

NK1160 .D47

Domus

N4 .D6

Fiberarts

Closed

folio TT697 .F52

Film comment

Closed

PN1993 .F438

Film Quarterly

PN1993 .H457

Films in Review

Reference

PN1993 .F6473

FMR

Closed

N4 .F583

GA Document

NA680 .G32

Gazette des Beaux-Arts

N2 .G3

The Harvard Architecture Review

N1 H34

Hesperia

DF10 .H4

High Performance

Sinclair

NX600 .P47 H53

Historical Preservation

E151 .H5

History of Photography

folio TR15 .H57

Interior Design (New York)

NK1700 .D55

Interiors (New York)

TS1300 .I67

International Review of African American Art

NX164 .N4 B5

The Japan Architect

NA1550 J34

The Journal of Aesthetic Education

N1 .J58

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

N1.J6

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

Sinclair

DT57 .J6

The Journal of Hellenic Studies

DF10 .J8

Journal of the Society of Architectual Historians

NA1 .A327

The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery

N5220 .W437

Landscape

G1 .L2

Landscape Architecture

SB469 .L3

Leonardo

N1 .L46

Lotus International

NA9 .L6

 

 


About the Art Collection

 

The art collection contains approximately 58,000 books and over 300 current subscription to periodicals and other serials supporting interests in Art, as well as thousands of other books and journals in related fields. The general collection covers art from around the world. The United States, Western Europe, Asia and the Pacific are emphasized. The Asia Collection and the Hawaiian/Pacific Collection also have a significant amount of material on the art of those geographic areas.


Library Collection Development Policy for Art

 

Notes:
The number of books and serials were calculated by combining the title count from the Library of Congress Classification areas AM, N, NB-NX, and TR. The figures are based on the 1997 North American Title Count (University of Hawaii at Manoa Library) and active serial subscriptions. Additional serials supporting art can be found by searching the library catalog with the terms art, ceramics, photography, sculpture, painting, etc. with the term periodicals.

 

Last modified: Thursday October 9, 2006

 

 


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