Research Guides: Communication Arts: Articles

Communication Arts Journals

A sampling of research journals in illustration and visual studies. Click to see holdings in VCU Libraries and online full text access.

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Top Communication Arts Databases

Use these arts and humanities databases to search for scholarly articles and essays on Communication Arts topics.

Art Full Text (EBSCO)
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text for articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Includes selected full-text. Abstracts, 1994+; full-text, 1997+.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
Documents the entire spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels. Includes over 75,000 pages of original material from the 1950s to today, along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Indexing and abstracts for over 300 journals, and selected coverage of over 100 more, for a combined coverage of over 400 titles in the communication and mass media fields. Includes full text for nearly 200 journals.

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(1915 - present) VCU access only
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO)
Indexing and abstracts, as well as full-text journal articles and book chapters relating to the field of film and television. Variety Movie Reviews.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) - (Proquest)
International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.

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Major areas of coverage include:
Product design
Interior design
Graphic design
Ceramics
Glass
Jewellery
Textiles
Furniture
Fashion and clothing
Illustration
Typography and type design
Metalsmithing
Retail design
Architecture
Industrial design
Sustainability
Advertising
Packaging
Theatre
Vehicles
Exhibitions
Book design
Web design
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Animation
Garden design
Landscape architecture
Urban design
Education
Design management
Inclusive design
Universal design
Design history

(1973 - present) VCU access only
ARTbibliographies Modern (Proquest)
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art (1974 - present).
International Bibliography of Art (Proquest)
Successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), covering European art since late antiquity, American art since the colonial era, and global art since 1945. Indexes international journals, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and more.

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2008 - present
Art Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Electronic version of Art Index, volumes 1-32, indexing historical literature on a variety of art topics from the early twentieth century to 1984.
Project Muse
Portal to electronic collection of about 200 journals from 30 not-for-profit publishers.
Vogue Archive
Image-rich primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history. It presents a portrait of its era through photographs, articles, and advertisements. Contains every page of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present.

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(1892 - Present) VCU access only
JSTOR
Searchable backfiles of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. (Backfiles end 3 - 5 years prior to current date).

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Contains digitized copies of complete runs of hundreds of scholarly journals, many of which contain illustrations and art reproductions. Select the "caption" feature (in the Advanced search) to limit your search to image captions.

Communication Arts Criticism and Reviews of Contemporary Art

In addition to the art databases, try these newspaper and multidisciplinary databases to find
reviews or criticism about contemporary art and artists.

Access World News
Full text for newspapers, newswires, blogs, transcripts, and more. Sources include not only major national and international newspapers, but also local and regional sources.
Dow Jones Factiva
Comprehensive, full text up-to-the-minute news and business source from Dow Jones and Reuters. Replaces Dow Jones Interactive.
New York Times
More than a newspaper for an American city, the New York Times is an international record of national and world news, as well as personal stories of how events affect individuals.
Academic Search Complete
Comprehensive scholarly multi-disciplinary full-text database. Includes over 5,500 full-text periodicals and indexing/abstracting for over 9,500 journals. Covers science, social sciences, mathematics, engineering, and many other subjects.