ARH 500 Library Methods
Databases and RefWorks
Avery Index - [truncation = ?]
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is updated daily. It is the most important database for Architectural History. Allows simple and advanced searches as well as the ability to limit and refine those searches. There is no need to ever use the term 'architecture' in your searches.
| Simple search | Subject Word formalism | |
| Simple search | Keyword architecture iconography | |
| Advanced search | Keyword architecture | AND Subject Word formalism |
| Advanced search | Subject Word arts and crafts | AND Subject Word united states |
Art Index - [*]
Art Retrospective indexes the 1929-1984 issues of 300 arts, architecture, design, and performance arts periodicals. Art FullText adds indexing and abstracts for 375 recent (1984-present) titles, with fulltext for 100 current titles.
ADVANCED SEARCH
| Click Art Full Text and Art Retrospective |
| architecture and modernism and gender as All - Smart Search |
Try these out:
1. Architecture and history and American
2. Formalist and culture
3. Architecture and iconography
4.Germany and modernism
5. Loos and criticism
ArtBibliographiesModern - [*]
Includes citations and abstracts for books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and articles from 1500 journals. Subjects covered include 20th century art history and criticism, design, photography (from 1839), architecture, and visual culture.
SIMPLE SEARCH
| 1. Gothic architecture, as keywords, as exact phrase
2. Norman Foster, as keywords, as exact phrase, 2000-2003 3. Wilson, Richard, as author, all years |
ADVANCED SEARCH
| Keyword architecture | AND Subject artist gehry | AND Descriptors Europe |
| Abstract gothic or medieval | AND Journal Name Art Bulletin | |
| Keyword arts and crafts | AND Descriptors American |
(BHA) Bibliography of the History of Art - [?]
Covering European and American art from late antiquity (ca. 300 AD) to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present. It is primarily an art database but does include architecture, architectural history and landscape architecture. The term 'architecture' can be helpful in this database but is not always necessary.
| Simple search | Keywords romanticism European architecture | |
| Simple search | Keywords national romanticism | |
| Simple search | Subject Word garden cit? | |
| Advanced search | Subject Word garden cit? | AND LIMIT to 1990-2003 |
| Advanced search | Keyword arts and crafts movement | AND Keyword England |
| Advanced search | Subject werkbund | AND Keyword industrial design |
Can limit searches by publication date, language
Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu
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