Art Full Text indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in the arts, as well as expanded coverage of European, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. Indexing (1984- ), Abstracting (1994- ), select Full Text (1997- ). 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, and Video.
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Provides access to over 50 years of citations from hundreds of the leading art periodicals and magazines. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals covered.
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Contains digital art images, museum reproductions, and photograph collections documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Images are international in scope and coverage includes a wide variety of civilizations, time-periods and media. The images are drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers. The database is updated with new images on a regular basis.
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AskART is an online database containing information on over 270,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists--painters, sculptors and illustrators--from the early 16th century through the present. However in January of 2007, the database expanded to include international artists' auction records along with book and periodical references and images. Artist entries include a biography, information about museums that display their work, a bibliography of books and periodicals about the artist, and a superb color image gallery. Over 7,400 museums and dealers are also referenced and can be accessed through a name keyword search, an alphabetically arranged artist index, or by category on a more selective basis (e.g., California Artists, Hudson River School). AskArt also provides directories of museums, dealers, auction houses, and professional organizations, as well as a glossary of art terms.

Invaluable (formerly Artfact) is the worlds largest online auction marketplace of fine and decorative arts, antiques, collectibles, and estate sales. Across all three of their sites--invaluable.com, invaluable.co.uk, and auctionzip.com--more than 30 million bidders per year arrive in the virtual salerooms of the worlds premier auction houses. Collectors have unprecedented access to the items they are most passionate about. Invaluables live online bidding platform allows collectors to bid in real-time on auctions held around the world.

Bidders can search and buy from over 160,000 auctions annually with a combined value of over $25 billion. Invaluables best in class price database includes more than 57 million complete auction results totaling more than $204 billion in value, including information on more than 500,000 international artists.

As the worlds leading provider of SaaS technology and marketing services to the $40 billion live auctions market, Invaluable provides auctioneers with marketing and e-commerce solutions including auction listings, online bidding, websites, and auction management software (RFC Systems) reaching over 25,000 estate and art auctioneers around the globe.
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Contains over 45,000 articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art (editor Jane Turner, 1996: 34 vols) on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Also contains biographies, bibliographies, and thousands of links to color images and home pages from the world's leading museums, picture libraries, and galleries around the world. Browse by the following subject areas: African Art Australian and New Zealand Art Chinese Art Classical Art Latin American and Caribbean Art Northern Renaissance Art and Twentieth Century Art. Users can also explore particular themes such as: Art and Art Forms Geography People Styles and Cultures and Time Periods. Grove Art Online also provides access to all of the articles from The Oxford Companion to Western Art (ed. Hugh Brigstocke, 2001). OCWA contains over 2,800 entries on major subjects in the visual arts covering major museums, artists, styles, periods, techniques, materials, and more.

With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Entries are clear and concise, and Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. In addition to its outstanding scope and depth, two features in particular make Benezit unique among art reference works: its superb coverage of obscure artists and the inclusion of images of artists signatures, monograms, and stamps.