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Suggested Online Resources for Women in Art

Academic eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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A selection of nearly 150,000 multidisciplinary e-book titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Home to nearly 13,000 indexed journals with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, and more.
Comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database. Covers a wide variety of topics.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
Comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database. Covers a wide variety of topics.
CREDO Reference This link opens in a new window
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Search multiple dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
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Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts includes hundreds of journals covering drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Many of the articles are available in full text.

Artforum International
Since 1962, Artforum has been the defining voice in contemporary art. Artforum's specially commissioned artist projects, reviews, and essays on film, music, architecture, media, and more lend a unique perspective to the fine arts and to popular culture at large.
Art in America
Published 11 times per year, every issue contains profiles on respected and rising talents, critical essays and reviews of current exhibitions around the world, written by today's leading artists, curators and historians.

An Illustrated Guide to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” (1971) is generally considered the first major work of feminist art history. Tiernan Morgan and Lauren Purje explain.

Édouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863, oil on canvas, 208x 264.5cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The Male Gaze by Rebecca McInerney
The theory of the male gaze is something that art historians have begun to use to explain patterns that have emerged in art over time. One common question that presents itself when we look at older art is why there are so many nudes used within paintings. This occurrence can be attributed mainly, to this theory of the male gaze.

Art and Architecture in Video offers documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. The collection spans period and region, including coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.

In accordance with Library of Congress Classification, books about Fine Arts are found in Class N of the library. The subclasses are as follows:

N Visual Arts

NA Architecture

NB Sculpture

NC Drawing. Design. Illustration

ND Painting

NE Print Media

NK Decorative Arts

NX Arts in general