6. SPECIALIZED SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Examples: E. Verga's Bibliografia Vinciana (1931); M. Prause's Bibliographie zur Kunstgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts (1984) and T. Rigg's Index to Oeuvre Catalogs of Prints by European and American Artists (1983).
Several U.S. publishers have issued such specialized bibliographies in formal series. These include:
Contemporary American Art Critics. (1984-1988) (pub.: UMI)
Published titles include Kuspit, D. The Critic is Artist: Intentionality in Art. Titles can be found in CLIO by author, title and by series.
Foster, Hal, ed. Discussions in Contemporary Culture. (1987-1995) (pub.: Bay Pr.)
[Avery Fine Arts N 7240 D63]
Essays on contemporary issues in the arts. Includes essays by Bernard Tschumi, Gayatri Spivak, Barbara Kruger, Jonathan Crary, Rosalind Krauss, etc.
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. (pub.: Garland)
Published titles include E. Kaufman and S. Irish, Medievalism: an Annotated Bibliography. Titles can be found in the card catalog or CLIO by author, title, and, since 1976, by series.
Reference Publications in Art History. (also referred to as Reference Publication in Art History (1982-1996) (pub.: G.K. Hall)
Published titles include J. Stubblebine, Dugento Painting: an Annotated Bibliography and C. Karpinski, Italian Printmaking Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: an Annotated Bibliography. Titles can be found in the card catalog or CLIO by author, title and by series.
Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies. (see website)
Produced within Columbia University Libraries, this provides access to online scholarly documents and electronic resources on Russian, Eurasian & Eastern European studies available on the Internet.
Here is a brief list of sources for non-western arts. – be sure to look within the Columbia University Libraries website under Electronic Resources--Subject Guides where individual geographic area subject specialists have developed or connected to web sites. E.g. African studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American studies, Middle East studies, Russian and East European studies, South Asian studies, South East Asian studies.
EASTERN ART (Middle East, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Far East)
ABIA Index. (Online, 1990 to date)
[Avery Fine Arts Refeference N1 Ab52] (Paper, 1990 to date) Bibliographic database on South & Southeast Asian art and archaeology, compiled by IIAS, covering articles, monographs, grey literature published 1990 to present.
Banerjea, Jitendra Nath. The Development of Hindu Iconography. (1956)
[Avery Fine Arts N 7655 B22]
Bibliographie der Deutschsprachigen Arabistik und Islamkunde: von den Anfängen bis 1986 nebst Literatur über die arabischen Länder der Gegenwart.
ed. Fuat Sezgin, 21 vol.(1990-1996). Classified unannotated bibliographies of German-language literature on the Islamic and Arabic world. Includes materials published up to 1986.
[Butler Reference R016.95 B47]
Bibliography of Asian Studies. (Online, 1971 to date)
[Butler Reference R016.95 AM3, Starr East Asian Z 3001 .B47] (Paper, 1971 to date)
Online version contains more than 545,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published 1971 to the present. It contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS issued from 1971 up to the 1991 ed. (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries published since.
Bibliography of the architecture, arts and crafts of Islam.
ed. Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell. (1960 and 1984 suppl). Occasional brief annotations. Bibliography listing articles, books, etc. covering “every branch of Muslim Architecture and Art, except Numismatics.” –Pref.
[Avery Reference N35 C86]
Bulletin Signalétique, Section 526: Art and Archeology: Near East, Asia, America.
[Avery Fine Arts Refeference N 2 B881] (Paper, own 1991-1994)]
[See also Francis on Columbia University Libraries website {6.13}]
C.V. Starr East Asian Library. (see website)
One of the premiere East Asian Libraries in the country, here at Columbia University.
Digital South Asian Library (Online: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ )
A collaborative effort to make South Asian resources available to the international community. Has bibliography section
Eastview Universal Databases. (Online)
Provides full text in-depth information from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Resources include newspapers, newswires, popular and scholarly periodicals, and government documents.
Goldman, B. The Ancient Arts of Western and Central Asia: a Guide to the Literature. (1991)
[Avery Fine Arts Refeference N 35 G556]
Gu gong qi kan tu wen zi liao ku : Databases of articles and images from the National Palace Museum's periodicals. (Online)
Provides searchable full text access to four periodicals published by Taiwan Palace Museum: Gugong wen wu yue kan; Gugong ji kan; Gugong xue shu ji kan; Ying wen ban yue kan (or ban nian kan).
Kalasampada : digital library : resource for Indian cultural heritage (DL-RICH). (Online)
A digital library project sponsored by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), that offers a variety of cultural information and helps the users to interact and explore the subject available in image, audio, text, graphics, animation and video form.
Middle East: Abstracts and Index. (1978 to date)
[Lehman Z 3013 .M54]
Middle East and Jewish Studies Division of Columbia University Libraries. (see website)
Produced within Columbia University Libraries, this provides access to online scholarly documents and electronic resources on Middle Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies available on the Internet.
Online museum resources on Asian art. (Online)
OMuRAA (Online Museum Resources on Asian Art) is an initiative of the Asia for Educators Program at Columbia University. It's purpose is to make the visual materials now available on the websites of many museums and arts-related educational institutions better known.
Oriental Art. (1948 to date) (Far East)
[Avery Fine Arts N 1 Or4]
Each issue has classified current bibliography.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. (Online)
Contains 600 entries covering the prehistoric, predynastic, and dynastic phases of ancient Egypt within the context of its contiguous and sometimes conquering neighbors, tracing its history through the Islamic conquest of 642 CE, with the focus on dynastic Egypt. Treats all branches of Egyptology: archaeology, anthropology, architecture, linguistics, literary studies, epigraphy, papyrology, history, art history, religion, economics, ecology, geomorphology, and the life sciences.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online.
Offers more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields. Qur'anic studies resources, including two Oxford World's Classics translations of the Qur'an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur'an by Hanna Kassis. Primary source documents with editorial introductions. Timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content, and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance, and much more.
Journal of Asian Studies.Association of Asian Studies (1941 to date) (Far East)
[Offiste DS 335.J6 & Starr East Asian DS 501.J82]
Each September issue has a classified current bibliography.
South & Southeast Asian Studies. (see website)
Produced within Columbia University Libraries, this provides access to online scholarly documents and electronic resources on South and Southeast Asia available on the Internet.
Vanderstappen, Harrie A. The T.L. Yuan Bibliography of Western Writings on Chinese Art & Archaeology. (1975)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 7341 Av28]
PRE-COLONIAL, LATIN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, and AFRICAN ART
African Studies Internet Resources. (Website)
Produced within Columbia University Libraries, this provides access to online scholarly documents and electronic resources on Africa available on the Internet. Organized, in part, by region and country, organization, and topic.
Berlo, Janet Catherine, ed. Early Years of Native American Art History: the Politics of Scholarship and Collecting. (1992)
[Avery Fine Arts N 6501 Ea76]
A substantial bibliography follows each chapter.
Bunson, Margaret R. & Stephen M. Bunson. Encyclopedia of Ancient Mesoamerica. (1996)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 6503 B88]
Ethnoarts Index. (was Tribal arts review) (1985 to 2000)
[Avery Fine Arts N 1 Et385]
Current periodical index.
HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online. (Online, 1970 to date)
Citations to journal articles on Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics.
HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies Online) (Online, 1936 to date)
[Latin American Studies Reading Room, 503 Butler Z1605 .H23] (Paper, 1936 to date)
Both an index and print bibliography, humanities volume published every other year with section on art & architecture, organized by country. (Online version has poor interface.)
Latin American & Iberian Studies. (see website)
Produced within Columbia University Libraries, this provides access to online scholarly documents and electronic resources on Latin America, Spain and Portugal available on the Internet.
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC). (Online, 1990 to date)
Searchable tables of contents to over 500 journals published in Latin America in all subjects, most of which are not indexed by HAPI.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerica. (Online)
Chronicles Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. With more than 600 articles, it is invaluable for those interested in the rich heritage of this land. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region in fully cross-referenced, signed articles by the leading scholars in the discipline.
Perrois, Louis, ed. Anthropologie de l'Art. (1987-1989)
[Avery Fine Arts N 2 An86]
Cites papers on Africa, Oceania and the New World.
Stanley, Janet. The Arts of Africa: an Annotated Bibliography. (1989-1992)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 1 Ar777]
Classified annotated bibliography with author and subject index. Cites books, exhibition catalogues, articles.
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