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Studies in Southeast Asian Art

This is a guide to library and information resources for
Studies in Southeast Asian Art, within the postgraduate Art History  program,which has been developed jointly by the
Department of History at Adelaide University and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

The Barr Smith Library holds a more than adequate collection of books, journals and reference tools on art, but for in-depth research it may be necessary to consult the libraries of Flinders University and University of South Australia, both of which have very good art collections. You can use you UofA student card to borrow from the other university libraries.
Our web page provides a gateway to other libraries' catalogues, which includes access to the National Bibliographic database, Libraries Australia, with holdings from libraries all over Australia.
Journals not held by the BSL can be located on the database Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL), where any location beginning with an S is a South Australian location.

The Library of the Art Gallery of South Australia should be consulted as a last resort.

For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for History, ph. 83033706
Margaret Hosking  ph. 83033706....margaret.hosking@adelaide.edu.au

I am now located on level 2, in the wedge between the 800's and the 900's.
Reference collection is now on level 2 north, in the foyer outside the Barr Smith Readig Room.
Special Collections is now on level 1 south.

 

CONTENTS

SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

DATABASES

WWW SITES
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

CONTENTS

SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

DATABASES

WWW SITES

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

DATABASES

WWW SITES

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS

SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

DATABASES

WWW SITES

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Margaret Hosking
August 2010

 

SUMMON AND THE CATALOGUE

The Summon searchbox on the library's home page is a quick way to search across the library's resources in print and online with direct links to electronic content.
The catalogue should be used for accurate thorough searches for additional books in the Barr Smith Library, as well as for information as to the location and status of particular titles.

Subject heading in Basic Search or 
Any Keywords in Guided Keyword Search

Art, Southeast Asian
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

Historical dictionary of ancient Southeast Asia, John N. Miksic, 2007
Reference collection 959.003 M6369h

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

Oxford art online
Includes full texts of:
Grove dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)...............
also in Reference collection 703 T948d
Oxford companion to western art,
Encyclopedia of aesthetics,
Concise Oxford dictionary of art termsDictionary of art

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

Paxton, J.  Calendar of creative man. 1979
Reference collection 700.9 P342

Hall, J. Illustrated dictionary of symbols in Eastern and Western art. 1994
Reference collection 704.94603 H177i

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

DATABASES FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER REFERENCES

If you find citations that lack online full text, always search for the journal or book title in the catalogue.
We may hold it in print. Otherwise try the other libraries mentioned at the top of this guide.

Bibliography of Asian studies. 1971-
This is an essential resource  - it indexes Asian Studies journals and chapters in books.

ABIA South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology index
  2 vols  2002
Ref erence collection 950 S772h 2.15
also online at  ABIA Index:  South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology index

Art abstracts has been replaced by Art and Architecture Complete, which links to more full text:
Comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications, and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.

Academic OneFile1980-

Academic Search Premier

JSTOR includes full text of journals up to 3-5 years ago.

Periodicals index online
A database of 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
An 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 journals are held either in the BSL or State Library - check catalogues.

Project Muse full text of quality journal titles from scholarly publishers (US university presses) 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 pp 296 onwards
Main collection  959.80016  K91i.....and online

Unveiling Indonesia: Indonesian holdings in the Library of Congress: a bibliography
see p 1517 onwards, especially sections C and D.
Request from joint store

Yoo, Y. Buddhism: a subject index to periodical; articles in English, 1728-1971.  1973.     See Art pp 7-15.
Request from joint store
 

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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert V Fullerton Art Museum at California State University

John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art - r thirty-five years of field documentation photography by the Huntingtons, at Ohio State university

Asia Society-Art in context-Southeast Asia

Art Gallery of NSW

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.

The Spirit of Wood - a salutation to a living art - an exhibition of Malay woodcarving from the School of Oriental and African  Studies, London.

Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA)