Fields covered include archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, film, fine arts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, and photography. The print edition counterpart to this database, Art Index , began in 1929. Coverage is 1980 to the present. Available via the Pullen Library Online Resources page. The BHA database indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, dealer s catalogs and articles pertaining to European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Coverage includes painting, sculpture, and drawing, as well as architecture and industrial design.
Special features of the BHA include extensive coverage of foreign language sources, and coverage of visual media such as photography and decorative and applied arts. The database covers literature produced from 1973 to the present, and is updated quarterly. Find references to specific items using author, title or journal title searches, or material about a topic, using subject, keyword or abstract-word fields. This database is an international index to design and craft journals. Academic Search Premier contains full text for over 1200 journals in the social science, humanities, business and education.