This guide gives you an overview of recommended resources for Arts and Culture Studies: databases to find literature and primary sources; reference works to orientate on a particular topic and to find background information, and research skills literature.
Bear in mind that Arts and Culture Studies are multidisciplinary. You should therefore also consult resources from the fields of Sociology, Economics, Management, Media and Communication or Psychology if your research topic relates to any of these fields.
Comprehensive, peer-reviewed scholarly reference work on art galleries, auction houses, art fairs and dealers in Europe and North America from around 1900 to the present. Entries combine factual data with biographical information and historical narratives, and outline principal activities by listing exhibitions, clients, regular partners, and major artists whose works were sold.
Bloomsbury Art Markets will grow to a resource of over 4000 articles.
Date Range: 1900-present
Related databases: Artprice; ArtFacts.net
Next to the eBooks already in our collection, the Library temporarily provides access to thousands of eBooks from prominent publishers. Temporary access books will have 'EBA' + the end date mentioned in the 'Notes & License Terms' in our catalogue discovery tool sEURch.
Besides all De Gruyter titles this collection also includes eBooks in Cultural Studies from Amsterdam University Press and, published up to 2022, eBooks from a.o. Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, University of Toronto Press, Edinburgh University Press, and New York University Press.
PLEASE NOTE: The hyperlink above leads to all available Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks. You can filter on a specific collection, f.i.:
Oxford Handbooks Online offers access to a selection of handbooks, published by Oxford University Press, in the subject categories Business and Management, Economics and Finance, History, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.
The EUR has access to the following collections:
Besides these collections, the Library also has access to a small number of individual titles titles from other years or in other subjects.
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