Bibliography of the History of Art (BibHistArt)
Art bibliography covering European and American visual art
Why select this database?
- Includes international material selected from periodicals since 1973.
- The most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. Encompasses the fine arts as well as decorative and applied arts.
- Indexes and abstracts journal articles, art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs.
| Database details |
| Subjects |
art of Europe and the Americas
(4th century to modern) |
prints |
| painting |
decorative and applied arts |
| sculpture |
architecture and industrial design |
| drawings |
popular and folk art |
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| Sources |
4,300+ journals and other materials |
| Number of records |
Over 650,824 |
| Dates covered |
1973 to present |
| Updated |
Quarterly |
| Producer information |
J. Paul Getty Trust
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049
USA
Phone:+1-310-440-7335
Web: http://www.getty.edu/
Email: griweb@getty.edu
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| Copyright |
The Bibliography of the History of Art is the copyrighted product of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and/or their suppliers. Users of the Bibliography of the History of Art may reproduce a single copy of any record retrieved online, provided such copy is used solely for private study, scholarship, research or information. Under no circumstances may users store any records electronically for the purposes of resale, redistribution, or performing ongoing searching. |
Index labels and examples of an expert search in Bibliography of the History of Art
Use a colon after an index label (for example, au:)
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selections. The following examples show sample rather than actual
searches.
| Search indexes |
Labels |
Examples |
| Keyword |
kw: |
art history+
(keyword searches the Abstract, Source Phrase, Subject, and Title indexes) |
| Abstract |
ab: |
wall painting |
| Accession number |
no: |
XBHA10367916-G |
| Author |
au: |
o-doherty
ocallaghan |
| Author phrase |
au= |
ocallaghan judith
[last name first] |
| Conference name |
cn: |
collezionismo |
| Conference name phrase |
cn= |
congres national des societes savantes |
| Corporate author phrase |
co= |
montclair nj usa art museum |
| Database name phrase |
ds= |
rila international repertory of the literature of art |
| Descriptor |
de: |
sculpture photography |
| Descriptor phrase |
de= |
films american |
| Document type phrase |
dt= |
book |
| First page |
pg: |
54 |
| Issue |
is: |
16
|
| Language phrase |
ln= |
french
|
| Notes |
nt: |
review monograph |
| Personal name |
pn: |
ghada |
| Personal name phrase |
pn= |
tianmiao lin |
| Place of publication |
pl: |
paris |
| Publication date |
pd: |
1990-1991
(browse index for date formats) |
| Publication type phrase |
pt= |
actes de congres
(browse index by entering a letter to list exact terms then click on the one you want to see) |
| Source |
so: |
aberaeron |
| Source phrase |
so= |
beaux arts magazine |
| Standard number |
sn: |
0002-9114 |
| Subject |
su: |
painting+ pictorial |
| Subject phrase |
su= |
painters women 1986-1997 |
| Title |
ti: |
sculpture drawings |
| Title phrase |
ti= |
the sun and the snake in the church |
| Volume |
vo: |
40
|
| Year |
yr: |
1984
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