The Most Sweeping
Coverage of Art and Artists Available!
An invaluable, in-depth record of contemporary art history,
Art Index Retrospective: 1929 -1984 enables
users to access over half a century of art literature with ease. In addition to the leading English-language art journals,
Art Index Retrospective also covers a host of publications in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as important
yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
This unique resource guides users to contemporary criticism of art at the time of its debut,
helps them track the body of work of an individual artist or an entire movement, and ensures fast,
flexible access to artists’ interviews, commentaries, and more.
A one-time investment in this database offers:
High-quality indexing by in-house art experts of almost 600 publications over 55 years,
many of them peer-reviewed (visit our Journal Directory
for a searchable list of the journals covered).
Coverage of fine, decorative, and commercial art.
Citations to over 25,000 book reviews.
Indexing of art reproductions to help researchers in focusing on a single artist or on individual works.
In addition to bringing your patrons unparalleled coverage of all types of art for mere pennies per record,
Art Index Retrospective also offers all the functionality of WilsonWeb including:
Intuitive, fast, precise searching, making your periodicals collection more accessible and relevant to art researchers at all levels.
A subject-specific thesaurus developed specifically for Wilson’s art databases.
Reconciled subject headings and name variants, for consistency in searching.
Searches based on keywords, subject headings, personal names, article title words, organizations, publications, and year.
Links to websites cited by articles, allowing users to find related information and images on the open Internet.
Combine Art Index Retrospective with other databases in the H. W. Wilson Art Suite to build a comprehensive resource for use by
any art researcher, as well as by researchers from other fields, including anthropology, women’s studies, cultural studies, media studies, history, design, and more.
Search with Art Index Full Text to bring coverage up to the present day.
Search with Art Museum Image Gallery for access to 200,000+ images, rights-cleared for educational use.
Now
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When you search
Art Index Retrospective on WilsonWeb, you get
seamless links to full text articles on any of your library’s
reference databases that are OpenURL compliant—at no
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Just
click a special WilsonLink icon for
automatic links to your other databases—no
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additional hardware—WilsonWeb integrates your
electronic collection with a supplemental search
of all OpenURL compliant resources. In
addition, WilsonLink provides extended services
including an Internet search options.
Wide range of
subject coverage
Advertising Art • Antiques • Archaeology • Architecture
& Architectural History • Art History • Contemporary Art
• Crafts • Decorative Arts • Fashion Design • Folk Art
• Graphic Arts • Industrial Design • Interior Design •
Landscape Architecture • Motion Pictures • Museology •
Non-Western Art • Painting • Photography • Pottery •
Sculpture • Television • Textiles • Video
Also Available
Art
Full Text
Full
text plus abstracts and indexing of an
international array of peer-selected publications—now
with expanded coverage of Latin American,
Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new
artists, and contemporary art.
Art Museum Image Gallery
A digital library of art images and multimedia gathered
from distinguished museum collections. Over 200,000 images,
rights-cleared for educational use.
Art
Abstracts
This
database presents the same indexing and abstracts offered in
Art
Full Text, but without links to full text articles. The
same journals are covered. Art Abstracts is
updated daily on WilsonWeb.
Art
Index
This database presents the
same indexing offered in Art Full Text, but
without the abstracts or the links to full text articles. Art
Index is updated daily on WilsonWeb and
is also available in print.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
This database offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture and design,
including bibliographic descriptions on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture,
landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
Cinema Image Gallery
This database presents the history of movie-making and television through a wide range of high-quality images.
Comprising on-set stills, publicity photos, lobby cards, posters, advertisements, video clips, and more, Cinema Image Gallery
contains over 200,000 images from over a century of film-making.
Praise for Art Retrospective!
"A tremendous resource for... Historians,
students, and researchers... I would highly recommend Art Index
Retrospective for its comprehensive content and excellent search
options."
—Reference Reviews (Read
the review)
"The most inclusive and wide-ranging of the art
databases." —Online Magazine’s "The Online 100"
"Any college, university or
large public library should have this….any special museum
library should purchase it….a basic art and architecture
reference tool." —American Reference Books Annual
