Art Resources

Looking for magazine and journal articles?

Click Art Databases

Looking for facts and background information?

Click Reference Sources

Looking for art topics on the web?

Click Research on the Web

Art Databases

Name

Abstracts or
Full Text?

Description

Academic Search

Abstracts and selected full text

Selected full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals 1975 - present

Art Full Text
( WilsonWeb)

Abstracts and selected full text

Articles on art, art history, and related topics. Indexing begins in 1984, with selected full-text articles included beginning in 1997.
Select "Art" in the "Subject Area" dropdown menu to search.

Humanities Full Text
(WilsonWeb)

Abstracts and selected full text

Journal articles in art, history, literature, music, and religion. Provides indexing from 1984 and selected full text articles from 1995 on.

Current Holy Family students, faculty, and staff may obtain the current database logins by contacting the Northeast Philadelphia Library (267-341-3315), Newtown LRC (267-341-4010) or by sending email to reference@holyfamily.edu.

Journals
Many art journals are available to the Holy Family University community. Use our research databases to find journal articles on a specific topic.

If you know the name of the journal you need, try our Journal Locator.

If the library does not own the journal you need, try our Interlibrary Loan service.

Reference Sources
Art books are generally found in the N call number range. Look in the Family Cat Library Catalog for more print resources in our collection.

Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism.
NEP NX456 .A78 2004

Atlas of world art .
NEP REF N5300 .A77 2004

The Book of art; a pictorial encyclopedia of painting, drawing and sculpture.
NEP REF N5300 .B6

The concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists.
NEWT and NEP REF N33 .C59 2003

Art Websites
Art History on the Web
Links to information on a wealth of art history topics, browse by geographic region or time period.

ArtsEdge
Creative arts resources, lesson plans, and interactive media for educators.

Librarians' Index to the Internet – Arts and Humanities
This site links to all aspects of the fine and performing arts, including music, film, painting, and.

National Endowment for the Arts
National arts initiatives, publications, and resources on all aspects of the arts.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Links to various sources concerning all aspects of business.

Web Gallery of Art
Searchable database of images of European painting and sculpture from the 12th to mid-19th centuries.