The Most Sweeping
Coverage of Art and Artists Available!
An invaluable,
in-depth record of contemporary art history, Art Index
Retrospective allows users to search 55 years of art
journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading
English-language sources, plus others published in French,
Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users
have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum
bulletins.
A unique resource, Art
Index Retrospective helps users find contemporary
criticism of art at the time of its debut, track the body of
work of an artist or movement, find artists’ interviews and
other commentary, and much more.
High quality indexing of nearly 600 publications over 55 years provides
unprecedented coverage of art. Many of the journals are
peer-reviewed.
Visit our
Journal Directory for a searchable list of the journals
covered.
Search using the subject
thesaurus developed specifically for Wilson’s art
databases.
Coverage of fine, decorative
and commercial art.
International in scope:
covers periodicals published in French, Italian, German,
Spanish, and Dutch as well as English.
Now includes citations to over 25,000 book
reviews.
Indexing of art reproductions
helps researchers focus on a single artist or find individual
works.
Subject headings and
name variants have been reconciled to insure uniform,
thorough searches.
Search by keyword, subject
headings, personal names, article title words,
organizations, publication, and year.
Invaluable for students,
educators, curators, art historians, and art lovers.
Links to websites
cited by articles help users find related information and
images.
Intuitive, fast, precise
searching makes your periodicals collection more accessible
and valuable.
Uniform name authority
control (Details)
makes searching easy and
reliable.
Search with Art Full
Text to bring coverage right up to the present day.
Wilson quality indexing—done
by professionals with art history qualifications—guarantees
user satisfaction with search results.
Available on WilsonWeb and
WilsonDisc for a one-time sign-up fee.
Now
Featuring WilsonLink SFX-Powered Technology
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
additional charge.
Just
click a special WilsonLink icon for
automatic links to your other databases—no
matter what the vendor. You don’t need
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 100,000 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.
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
