RESOURCES ELSEWHERE
For in-depth research it may be necessary to consult the libraries
of Adelaide's other two universities.
You can search other
library catalogues from our web page and you can borrow from these
other university libraries.
University of South
Australia (City West campus),
Flinders University both
also have excellent collections of art resources.
Some titles may also be consulted at the State Library of South Australia
Journals in other libraries can be located via SIAL: Serials in Australian libraries
where "S" refers to a South Australian library.
The Library
of the Art Gallery of South Australia can be
consulted
as a last resort.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Use these to search the catalogue
for additional books in the Barr Smith Library.
Subject heading in Basic Search or
Any Keywords in Guided Keyword Search
Art, India
Art Indic
Art Hindu
Art, Buddhist
Art Thai Art Indonesia Art
Indonesian
Pottery, Southeast Asian
Textile fabrics Indonesia Themes, motives
Textile design Indonesia.
Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) Indonesia
Sculpture, Khmer
Sculpture Cambodia
Angkor Wat (Angkor)
Art, Islamic
ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
AND DICTIONARIES
By place -
Asia and specific countries
Dictionary of Indian art and artists : including technical art terms, Pratima Sheth, 2006
Reference collection 709.5403 S5546d
Southeast Asia : a historical
encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor, ed. Ooi Keat Gin. 3
vols. 2004
Reference collection 959.003 O599s
Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4
vols. 1988
Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations. L. Frederic. 10
vols. 1977-1984
Reference collection 950.03 L888e
Encyclopedia of Asian culture ed. P.N.
Chopra
1999.
Reference collection 950.03 C549e
Encyclopedia of modern Asia,
D. Levinson,. 6
vols, 2002.
Reference collection 950.03 L665e
Historical Dictionary of
Thailand, May Kyi Win. 1995.
Reference collection 959.3003 M466h
Historical and cultural dictionary of Thailand, H. E.
Smith, 1976
Reference collection 959.3003 S649h
Indonesian heritage
10 vols. 1996- see vols 1,6,7.
Reference collection 959.8 A919i
Arts, Symbolism and Beliefs
The Dictionary of art, ed. Jane Turner. 34 vols.1996.
Reference collection 703 T948d
Encyclopedia of world art. 15 v. 1959.
Reference collection 703 E56
Dictionary of South and
Southeast Asian art, G. Chaturachinda, 2000.
Reference collection 709.5 C495d
Hall, J. Illustrated dictionary of symbols in Eastern and
Western
art. 1994
Reference collection 704.94603 H177i
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and legend , Anna L. Dallapiccola, 2002
Reference collection 294.503 D144d
Ling, T. O. Dictionary of Buddhism 1972
Reference collection 294.03 D554
Dictionary of Buddhist terms and concepts 1983
Reference collection 294.303 D554
Bonnefoy, Y. Asian Mythologies. 1991
Reference collection 291.1303 B716d
A dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu iconography, illustrated
: objects,
devices, concepts, rites, and related terms,by Fredrick W.
Bunce. 1997
Reference collection 294.303 B942d
Dictionary of Hindu lore and
legend, Anna L. Dallapiccola, 2002
Reference collection 294.503 D144d
A concise encyclopedia of Islam, G. D. Newby, 2002
Reference collection 297.03 N535c
Dictionary of Islamic architecture, A. Petersen, 1996
Reference collection 720.917671 P484d
INDEXES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES
AND OTHER REFERENCES
Bibliography
of Asian studies. 1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970- also at Reference collection 950.05 B582
This is an essential
resource - it indexes Asian
Studies journals.
ABIA South
and Southeast Asian art and archaeology index 2 vols
2002
Reference collection 950 S772h 2.15
also online at ABIA Index:
South
and Southeast Asian art and archaeology index
l
Art
Abstracts 1984-
1929- available in print at Reference collection 705 A776
Academic OneFile1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals, including many art journals.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas, including art.
JSTOR includes full text of older issues of journals, including:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Coverage from journal's first issue until 3-5 years ago, so not current.
Periodicals index online
Millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Links to full text in PAO Periodicals archive online -
a full text searchable archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
This is a useful source for finding contemporary articles about art in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many of the older print journals are held either in the BSL or State Library - check catalogues.
Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies etc etc.
For articles from Australian journals
APA-FT:
Citations 1978- and full text for selected articles 1995
If you need newspaper coverage of recent exhibitions
and news
on art, use
Factiva,
an index to Australian and international newspapers with full text.
Bibliographies
Indonesia (World
bibliographical series)....see pp296 onwards
Reference collection 959.80016 K91i
Unveiling Indonesia: Indonesian
holdings in the Library of Congress: a bibliography
see p 1517 onwards, especially sections C and D.
Reference collection 959.80016 L697u
Yoo, Y. Buddhism: a subject index to periodical;
articles in English,
1728-1971. 1973. See Art pp 7-15.
Reference collection 294 Y59b
WWW SITES
Art History
resources on the web: Asian art
Asian Arts: an
on-line
journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia
Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
Princeton University Art Museum's Asian art collection
Musee Guimet, Paris
Asia
Society-Art in context-Southeast Asia
Asian Civilisations Museum
(Singapore)
Textile Museum
(Washington)
Hmong
textiles, from the UCI Libraries at the University of California.
Sculpture
of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia - a virtual tour from the National
Gallery of Art, Washington
Iraq
and China - ceramics, trade and innovation, an
exhibition from the Smithsonian.
Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art , from the University of Vienna
Arabic calligraphy, created by the Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization.
Centre of international modern art in Kolkata |
