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These books explore 20th and 21st-century art history, incorporating diverse artists from women, LGBTQ, indigenous, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. They include photography, museum studies, and artist interviews, but lack exhibit catalogs.

Provides searchable indexing art journalism from noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 through 1984. Art Index Retrospective cites sources published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch, as well as in English. In addition to periodicals, users will find data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Coverage: 1985-present

Berg Fashion Library provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. This resource features articles written by noted history of fashion experts and included images from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Content also includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.

Black Drama contains the full text of plays written by more numerous playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.

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The Criterion Collection showcases the definitive versions of seminal titles in the history of motion pictures in streaming format. This film selection details the history of film in the 20th Century, covering the works of Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, among others.

Sanborn fire insurance maps are large-scale maps containing data on urban structures, including building outline, size, and features like pipelines, railroads, and wells, used to estimate potential risks to earthquakes, fires, and floods.

Houses, contextualizes, and presents images and information relating to the iconographic traditions of the medieval world, reflecting its beginnings as a focused resource for the study of early Christian art, and now includes works from multiple medievalfaith traditions as well as secular imagery.

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Images of the full text of many scholarly titles in a range of subject areas, including literature, biological sciences, economics, finance, and statistics. Search the archive or pull up a specific article. Artstor is now available on the JSTOR platform.

Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books provides virtual access to a collection of decorative book bindings from the 19th and early 20th century, along with new and creative scholarship, research and teaching materials for the study and appreciation of the book.

Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe (1779 to 1930), and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Victorian Popular Culture invites readers to the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything spectacular: shows, bawdy burlesque, magic, spiritualist séances, etc.

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with indexing allowing users to find images by garment type, designer and brand names.

Helps assess current trends, collaborate and analyze trend forecasts and report for effective results during a design cycle. Its image library includes photos of women's, men's & children's fashion as well as interiors including coverage of all designer collections from New York, Paris, London, Milan and more. New content is added daily.

Women's Wear Daily (WWD) provides a balance of timely, credible business news and key fashion trends for retailers, designers, manufacturers, marketers, financiers, Wall Street analysts, international moguls, media executives, ad agencies, trend-makers and socialites.

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