Art History

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Books & Films at PCC & Summit Libraries

Art history books and Art history films at PCC and Summit libraries

Art in the Paleolithic period, books at PCC and Summit libraries

Art in the ancient Near East books and  Art in the ancient Near East films in the PCC and Summit libraries

Art in late antiquity, books in the PCC and Summit libraries

Early Christian art books and Early Christian art films in the PCC and Summit libraries

Medieval art books and  Medieval art films in the PCC and Summit libraries

Renaissance art books and  Renaissance art film in the PCC and Summit libraries

Baroque art books and Baroque art films in the PCC and Summit libraries

18th century art books and films in the PCC and Summit libraries

19th century art books and films in the PCC and Summit libraries

20th century art books and films in the PCC and Summit libraries

Expressionism books and films in the PCC and Summit libraries

Modernism books and films in the PCC and Summit libraries

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Art History Databases

ARTstor
A collection of over one million images in the arts, architecture, and social sciences. ARTstor tools support viewing and analyzing images, saving groups of images, and creating  presentations both online and offline. Register to save any images for future use and to use ARTstor's presentation tools. You also must register to access ARTstor from off-campus.

Academic Search Premier
An EBSCOhost database with full text of over 4,500 scholarly social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. 3,700+ are peer-reviewed.

Fine Arts and Music Collection
A Gale database of over 150 full-text magazines and journals in drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

JSTOR
Full text of over 1000 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. Does not include current issues of the journals. Video tutorials are available.

Oxford Art Online (aka Grove Art Online)
45,000 full text encyclopedia articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day, and a wide variety of image files.
*LIMITED TO 5 SIMULTANEOUS USERS*

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