Major navigation

Art Abstracts

Ordering options and further information about this resource are available after you sign in

The Art Abstracts database contains bibliographic contents of 552 leading art periodicals, journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks giving reference to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and many other types of material. Reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals are also fully detailed. Coverage is from 1984 as an index, with added abstracts from 1994 to the present day. Subject coverage spans all aspects of art, from visual to performing arts, and ranges from archaeology to television and video.

Read the full description here

Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities

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.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Research
  • AS/A Level / Scottish Higher National
  • Diploma
  • Vocational

Resource Types

  • databases

Further information

This resource is updated irregularly.

Indexing begins in 1984, and abstracting coverage begins with January 1994.

Daily on WilsonWeb, monthly on WilsonDisc.