Subject Guides: Asian Art: Articles, Databases, &amp; Journals

Visual Arts Databases | Start Here

Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Art Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes abstracts of articles covering visual arts in the 20th century to present. Coverage is from 1974 to the present.
Avery Index to Architecture (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Coverage of international scholarly and popular periodical literature, professional associations, US state and regional publications, and major serial publications on architecture, design, archaeology, city and urban planning, interior design, and preservation. Indexes from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.

Interdisciplinary Databases

JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century. Also searches ARTstor.
Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window An Asian Studies database. This database indexes books and articles from around the world on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia. Coverage is from 1971 to the present.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Indexes the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,000 journals, including over 9,000 peer-reviewed titles. Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, womens studies, zoology and more.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.

Selected Asian Art Journals

Following is a list of selected journals covering Asian Art. Be sure to search general art journals, which also include Asian art.

To find out if the Lee Library subscribes to a specific title, search it in Journal Finder.
Print journals are located in the Periodicals Room, level 2 or by request in Auxiliary Storage.

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Archives of Asian Art (2008-current) Annual journal devoted to new scholarship on art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Archives of Asian Art (1968-current) Archives of Asian Art (1945-1968) The Art Bulletin (1913–present) Analysis of Art from around the world including Asian Art.
Ars Orientalis Open access from 1954-2018.
Art AsiaPacific \| N 7260 .A78x Online from 1993-current, print from 1998-2018. BLOG
Artibus Asiae \| N 8 .A75 Online 1925- (most recent 6 years not available), print from 1925-2010.
Asia Design Journal Online 2007-current.
AsianArt.com Online journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia.
Ideas Asia Art Archive online journal.
Japan Architect \| NA 6 .J3 J32x Print from 1971-2019.
Orientations (1997-current) Bimonthly magazine published in Hong Kong since 1969. Covers the ancient arts of painting, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, and the decorative arts from scholarly research and current news. Print from 1970-1984 (in Auxiliary Storage DS 501 .O73), full-text online from 2013.

Digitized Periodicals

Modern Sketch (Chinese periodical)
Rare Chinese periodical, Modern Sketch (Shi Dai Man Hua) contains caricatures, cartoons, and humorous writing that defined the golden era of Shanghai’s comic art during the mid-1930’s (1934-37).

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