Please see our Art databases for content specific to this area.
Databases are collections of content, such as journals, articles, and more. Review the description of the database contents in order to select the "best" database for your project. You may see multiple databases with the same name, but they are not duplicates. They contain content from different vendors.
One of the great things about database searches is that it will populate related search terms as you type in the search box. Take advantage of those suggestions to broaden or narrow your search. We also recommend using the "Full Text" filter. This will update your results to show complete items and remove results that are just abstracts or descriptions of a full article that isn't available.
Databases for Visual Arts can be found by selecting Art in the Databases AZ "Subject" filter box.
Here are some more databases which may help you find information you are looking for. Also look at other Subject Guides to find multidisciplinary resources.
Find articles and dissertations covering fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture. Includes some full-text and a database-specific thesaurus.
Artstor’s diverse collections are rights-cleared for education and research, and include Open Access content as well as rare materials not available elsewhere. UW-Superior does not have a subscription to Artstor, but users can still view Open Access content.
Kanopy is a streaming video resource with a broad collection of over 26,000 films on every subject imaginable and from leading producers such as Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, and more. Please review permitted uses for videos in this database.
The PBS Video Collection is now in its third edition and contains nearly 600 titles. This product brings one of television’s most trusted networks into classrooms, with familiar series and names like NOVA, Nature, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline. Please review permitted uses for videos in this database.
Journals are regularly published (annually, monthly, quarterly) collections of scholarly and creative articles. They are typically peer-reviewed, meaning they are evaluated, critiqued, and edited prior to publication. The Search@UW Library Catalog and many of the Databases in the A-Z list can aid you searching for and locating articles from journals.
We have online access to thousands of journals for the area of Visual Art under Arts, Architecture & Applied Arts sub-genre Visual Arts. This is just a sample of the sub-genres. Drill down, when possible, to find more topics.
The following are examples of available Visual Arts journals. These selections were included because they cover a range of Visual Art topics.
The following are print journals available at the Garden Level and are arranged alphabetically by journal title:
These are some other resources in Visual Arts freely available on the Web:
