Subjects Covered
Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in 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

Art Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.

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Fields

Bold text indicates limit fields.

Using Limit Fields

AB Abstract

The AB field contains a summary of the document. You can search any word or phrase in the abstract.

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ABI Abstract Indicator
(a limit field)

y in abi

The ABI field indicates whether the record includes an abstract of the article. The field contains a "y" if an abstract is present.

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AN Accession Number
(a limit field)

The AN field contains a unique number that identifies the document.

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AR Artist

rembrandt in ar

The AR field identifies the name of the artist who created the original work. This field may also contain the title of the illustration of the artist's work that accompanies the article.
When a document type is an art reproduction, the AR field contains the name of the artist who created the original work.

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AU Personal Author

ashton in au

The AU field identifies a person responsible for the intellectual content of the document. Search last name only or first name and last name, in any order. You can also search personal author names by last name using the Personal Author list in Browse.

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BR Books Reviewed

ashton in br
greenberg in br

The BR field contains the title and author of a book being reviewed in the record for a review. You can search any word or phrase in this field.

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CA Corporate Author

The CA field identifies the institution, association, conference, corporation, or government agency that is the author of a book. You can search the content of this field in the Free Text list in Browse.

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DT Document Type
(a limit field)

interview in dt

The DT field describes the contents of the document. Use this field to limit your search to items of a particular type, such as biography or interview. This field contains keywords that characterize the article contents.

Use these words to limit your search to a particular kind of article:

Art Reproduction
Autobiography
Bibliography
Biography
Book Excerpt
Book Review
Exhibit
Feature Article
Interview
Motion Picture Review
Obituary
Symposium
Television-Program-Review
Videotape-Review

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ISSN ISSN
(a limit field)

The ISSN field lists the International Standard Serial Number.

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JI Journal Issue

The JI field contains an issue of a journal included in the database. You can also search for a specific issue of a journal using the Journal Issue list in Browse.

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JN Journal Name

The JN field contains the name of a journal included in the database. You can also search for a specific journal using the Journal Name list in Browse.

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LA Language of Document
(a limit field)

english in la

The LA field contains the language of the document.

The following is a list of article languages:
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish

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MD Materials and Date

The MD field contains information about the medium, originator, and date of an art work.

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OT Other Titles

The OT field provides additional title access. It may include descriptive words added by indexers to augment the title. You can search any word or phrase in this field.

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PD Physical Description
(a limit field)

map in pd

The PD field describes illustrative or graphic material that appears in the original document. You may search a code or a term.

The following is a list of codes and the physical description each represents:

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PRI Peer Reviewed Journal
(a limit field)

The PRI field indicates whether the document is from a peer-reviewed journal. The field contains a "y" if the journal is peer-reviewed. This indicator is present for journals published from 1996.

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PY Publication Year
(a limit field)

1993 in py

The PY field contains the year in which the document was published. This field is range searchable.

You can search a range of dates using the and operator:
(py>1990) and (py<1998)

You can also search for a specific date using the Publication Year list in Browse.

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SO Source

"art news" in so

The SO field contains the bibliographic source including the journal name, volume number, publication date, and page numbers. You can search for any word or phrase in this field.

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SU Subject(s)

The SU field contains a controlled vocabulary term that describes the document. The field can include personal names, topical terms, organization names, geographic names, and uniform titles.

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TI Title

wild irises in ti

The TI field contains the full title of the original document. You can search for any word or phrase in the title.

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UD Update Code
(a limit field)

19980203 in ud

The UD field contains the year, month, and day in which the record was added to the database in the format yyyymmdd. You can search for a single date using in as shown above. In addition, you can search for a range of dates.

< (less than),
<all>(ud<19940802)

> (greater than),
<all>(ud>19940802)

<= (less than or equal to),
<all>(ud<=19940802)

>= (greater than or equal to),
<all>(ud>=19940802)

You can also search a range of dates using the and operator:
(ud>19990801) and (ud<19990901)

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URL Web Sites

The URL field lists the URLs of web sites chosen by the author of the article. These related internet links provide additional information on subjects discussed in the document.

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Using Limit Fields

Limit fields, when combined with other search terms, are particularly useful for focusing or limiting a search. To search a limit field, use the in operator with the field abbreviation, such as symposium in dt. Omitting the field label retrieves information from free text (non-limit) fields only.

You can also search many limit fields using field-specific indexes in Browse.

For limit fields containing numeric data, you can also use other special operators:

< less than,
<all>(py<1984)

> greater than,
<all>(py>1993)

<= less than or equal to,
<all>(ud<=19930802)

>= greater than or equal to,
<all>(ud>=20010531)

Combine this type of numeric-field range search with another search term:
(py>2001) and dividends

You can search a range of dates using the and operator:
(py>1998) and (py<2001)

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