Databases
- Art Full Text (1984 to date) This link opens in a new window
Indexes 350 art magazines and journals covering pre-historic to contemporary art. Some full text from 1995-date. For earlier dates search its companion database the Art Index Retrospective. Searching both databases simultaneously for publications dated 1929 to the present. Both databases index the Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin.
- Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) This link opens in a new window
Indexes 350 art magazines and journals covering pre-history to contemporary art. Indexes the Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin.
- ARTbibliographies MODERN This link opens in a new windowIndexes 300+ journals published from 1969 to the present covering western European and North American art created in the late 19th century to the present. Also indexes exhibition catalogs, books and essays in books. Includes photography, the fine arts and new media but not architecture
Useful subjects:
Installation art
Site-specific works
Public art
Environmental art
Conceptual art - Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowIncludes coverage of avant-garde forms such as performance art.
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Browse the subjects under Performance art. Combine subjects in Keyword searches for more results.
| Subject Headings | More Subject Headings |
| Conceptual Art | Assemblage (Art) |
| Installations (Art) | Earthworks (Art) |
| Happenings (art) | Environment (Art) |
| Interactive art | Art and social action |
| Performance Art (or Performance artists) | Site-specific installations (Art) |
| Street art | Projection art |
| Video art |
Bibliographies & Perodicals
Action Art by Call Number: Art Library, Z 5936.P47G73 1993ISBN: 9780313289163One of the first bibliographies of performance art documentation, this title covers early 20th c. antecedents in Europe and Russian through the peak decades of the 50s, 60s and 70s, to the early 1990s. 115 individual performance artists and groups are covered in depth.
More than 3700 entries document print and media materials dating from 1914 to 1992.
Emergency indexCall Number: Art Library, NX456.5.P38 E44 vol.1 (2011) - vol. 3 (2013)Documents, in the words of its creators, performance in dance, theater, poetry, music, visual art, political activism, scientific research, advertising, terrorism, and elsewhere regardless of the country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, Each volume includes an index of key terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their work.
- ISEA: International Symposium on Electronic Art
This website is an archive of the printed and digital materials from the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). Since 1988, this nomadic symposium has been organized in a different city by a different team each time. - Leonardo
Founded in 1968, Leonardo is an international journal for artists who use science and developing technologies in their work, with an emphasis on artists' writings. The companion annual journal, Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) features the latest in music, multimedia art, sound science and technology. - PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
Extended coverage of the visual arts (such as video, installations, photography, and multimedia performance), in addition to reviews of new works in theatre, dance, film, and opera. Issues include artists' writings, essays, interviews and dialogues, historical documentation, performance texts and plays, reports on performance abroad, and book reviews. - RE:SCULPT – International Sculpture Center
re:sculpt is a blog dedicated to news and reviews in the world of sculpture. Authored by a team of artists and art critics from around the globe, the blog is affiliated with the International Sculpture Center, an organization founded in 1960 to "champion the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society." Visitors can browse for current and past entries by categories including Materials and Processes, In the Studio, Environmental Art, and Book Reviews. - Sculpture
The journal of the International Sculpture Center, Sculpture explores all forms of contemporary sculpture from criticism, to technical discussions and explorations of new materials and techniques. - TDR: The Drama Review
TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts. With an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary, it covers dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life. - Theatre Journal
One of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre studies, The Theatre Journal includes contributions from noted practitioners and scholars, It features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production. An official publication of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).