Featuring full-text articles plus abstracting and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, Art Full Text is an unmatched resource for art information.
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Featuring full-text articles, abstracting and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications, podcasts, and page images, Art Full Text is an unmatched resource for art information.

The database covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture, and much more. In recent years, coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and non-Western art has expanded greatly, along with its material on new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.

More than simply a resource for art students and art historians, Art Full Text rounds out the research experience for those studying other fields, such as women’s, media, or cultural studies, history, anthropology, industrial design, and more. Art Full Text is where researchers and casual readers can track the careers of artists and review their materials and methods. They can also find books by and about artists, as well as interviews, profiles, and much more. Indexing of art reproductions help users find virtually any work of interest—including works by emerging artists—as well as examples of styles and movements in art.

Art Full Text features:

• Full text of articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997.
• High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984, including 260 peer-reviewed journals (visit the Journal Directory for a searchable list of publications covered).
• Indexing and abstracting of over 18,000 art dissertations, offering your patrons complete coverage of all areas of art research.
• International coverage: periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch are covered in addition to English-language journals. When combined with WilsonWeb’s translation service, this feature greatly expands patrons’ research horizons.
• Substantial coverage of journal indexed by the Bibliographic History of Art—new journals being added on a regular basis.
• Indexing of art reproductions, enabling library patrons to focus on a single artist or individual works.
•  Art reproduction records, generated within the database when materials advertising gallery shows by new artists are indexed—Art Full Text could feature citations for an artist before a journal article is even written about them.
• A database-specific thesaurus to enable patrons to search with pinpoint accuracy.
• Podcasts from leading museums on artists and individual works of art that can be enjoyed by art students and general listeners.
• Biography icons to allow patrons to quickly locate biographical material within search results.
• Unique subject-specific search fields, such as “Artist & Work”, which allow patrons to see the specific works reproduced or mentioned in an article before retrieving the actual article.
• Uniform name authority and control for easier and faster searching.
• Seamless links to full-text articles on any of your library’s reference databases that are OpenURL compliant – at no additional charge and with no additional hardware.
• PDF page images of many articles, ensuring that patrons get exactly the same research experience they would get from paper volumes, without a trip to the shelves!
• Daily updates on WilsonWeb, so that your collection is always growing without requiring any more maintenance or space.

Wide range of subject coverage
Advertising Art • Antiques • Archaeology • Architecture & Architectural History • Art History • Contemporary Art • Costume • Crafts • Decorative Arts • Folk Art • Graphic Arts • Industrial Design • Interior Design • Landscape Architecture • Motion Pictures • Museology • Non-Western Art • Painting • Photography • Pottery • Sculpture • Television • Textiles • Video