Chinese Studies
A list of research guides to Chinese Studies in all primary subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research Guide to Chinese Studies: Art and Art History (For Course: Chinese Art History)
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
This guide provides an introduction to resources on Studies in Chinese Art and Art History. In addition to these resources, users can search materials on Chinese Art and Art History studies from UI Library online catalog, InfoHawk+.
Resources
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The T. L. Yuan Bibliography of Western Writings on Chinese Art and Archaeology by Harrie A. Vanderstappen (Editor)Call Number: FOLI Z5961.C5 Y9ISBN: 0720105218Publication Date: 1975-12-01Reference covers western writings on Chinese art and archaeology.
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Indexes 1984 to date, abstracts 1994 to date, and full text 1997 to present for 376 international journals. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in English and other Western European languages, with a broad subject range. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
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Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Coverage: 1-32, 1929-1984 - parallels Art Full Text. Subjects covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, 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. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
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ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Abstracts of current literature in modern art, photography and design.
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Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of digital images and associated catalog data within JSTOR, with new image collections added several times a year. Artstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents 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. Users can search, view, download and organize images.
To download images users MUST register for a personal account.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
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China Academic Journals (CAJ): Series A, F, G, & H This link opens in a new windowThis database covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts.The U of Iowa subscribes to Series A (Physics/Astronomy/Mathematics), Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy), Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law), and Series H (Education and Social Sciences), including back files dating back to 1994. It is part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The database provides full texts in CAJ and PDF formats.
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Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1833-1949) This link opens in a new windowChinese Periodical Full-text Database (1833-1949) covers around 10,000,000 pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1833 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical value.
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JSTOR (Journal Storage) This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each titles. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below
Note that this database comprises mostly back issues: for most titles the JSTOR database does NOT include full text of the most recent 3 to 5 years. -
Project Muse This link opens in a new windowWith full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
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An Index Dictionary of Chinese Artist, Collectors and Connoisseurs, with Character Identification by Modified Stroke Count by Nancy N. Seymour
Call Number: N7348 .S48ISBN: 0810820919Publication Date: 1988-01-01Reference covers western writings on Chinese art and archaeology. -
Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art by Hugo Münsterberg
Call Number: N7337 .M87ISBN: 0878172483Publication Date: 1981-01-01Covers Chinese art and art history. -
Modern Chinese Artists by Michael Sullivan
Call Number: N7348 .S85ISBN: 0520244494Publication Date: 2006-04-03The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Archives of the Chinese Art Society of AmericaChinese Art Society of America
Cover historical researches on Chinese art and art history. -
Ars OrientalisFreer Gallery of Art
Cover historical researches on Chinese art and art history.
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A Glossary of Chinese Art and ArchaeologyLondon: China Society, 1961
Call number: N7340 .H3
A very useful reference book on Chinese art.
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Mei shu lun wen lun zhu zi liao suo yin 美术论文论著资料索引Tianjin Shi: Tianjin ren min mei shu chu ban she, 2000
Call number: Z5961.C5 M454
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Zhongguo yi shu kao gu lun wen suo yin, 1949-1966 中國藝術考古論文索引Hong Kong : Center of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong; 1974
Call number: Z5961.C5 C45
Chinese art and archaeology: a classified index to articles published in Mainland China periodicals, 1949-1966.
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