Art & Art History 

VII. Non-Western and Multicultural

Databases:

FAL web page: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/index.html - Databases

(BAS) Bibliography of Asian Studies

References western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.

Art Index

Indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world.�

Bibliography of Native North Americans (VIRGO databases)

Contains citations to literature about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present from the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) and the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Includes book reviews.

Index Islamicus

Lists books and articles in periodicals about Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.

Web Resources:

Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art

UVa East Asia Center

Includes links to sites on Asian studies throughout the world.

Himalayan Art

WWW Virtual Library: Guide to Tibetan Art, Theater, and Music

AfricArt

H-AfrArts

Museum Web Sites:

Discover Islamic Art

Heard Museum

Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Baltimore Museum of Art

National Museum of the American Indian

Musee Guimet

Musee du Quai Branly

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art

National Museum of African Art II, Smithsonian Institute

Print Resources:

A selective sampling of important series for this period:

General Index, Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art (FA-REF N7350 .B45 1980)
An index to the extensive Heibonsha volumes of photographs of Japanese monuments.
Encyclopedia of Asian Culture (FA-REF DS12 .E53 1999)
The Cambridge History of Japan, 5 vols. (FA-REF DS835 .C36 1988)
The Cambridge History of China, 2 vols. (FA-REF DS735 .C3145)
The Cambridge History of Ancient China (FA-REF DS741.5 .C35 1999)
A Dictionary of Japanese Art Terms (FA-REF34 .N52 1990)
Islamic Art Collections (FA-REF N6260 .I85 2000)

Topics:

Choose one and search for citations on the subject in the indexes you deem appropriate. Note a few good articles or citations you found pertinent to the topic and where you found them.

Portraits of Shah Jahan

Collections of Islamic art in France

Chinese paintings of the seasons

Nigerian royal sculpture

Madura sculpture

Frescoes from the Abbasid period

Flames of the Bodhisattva

Korean pottery

Temples at Nara

Tibetan medical scrolls

Southeast Asian architecture