Database Description
Fields in This Database: Authors · Titles · Subjects · Abstract · Issue Numbering · Codes
Database Description: Art Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting, indexing, and full-text articles for leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. This database offers broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history.
Entries in the database also cite any art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists' names.
PRODUCED BY: H.W. Wilson
Company.
DATES COVERED: Indexing from 1929; abstracting from Spring 1994;
full text from 1997.
UPDATES: Monthly.
Fields in This Database
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AU. | AUTHORS | nagaswamy.au.
(berna heath).au. |
| .CO. | CORPORATE AUTHOR | metropolitan.co. |
AUTHORS (.AU.) includes names of the authors of articles. AU also includes names of artists, when the article is about an artist's work or includes an illustration, or when the citation refers to an art reproduction (no text). Author names are given with surname first. Names are standardized in this database, so that the same form of name is always used for a particular person or organization. Examples:
Sueur, Helene
Den Broeder, Frederick
Spike, John T.
Berna-Heath, Diane
Lai, Richard Tseng-yu
All words are indexed. If you are unsure how the name is given, begin searching by surname only.
CORPORATE AUTHOR (.CO.): Name of organization (association, institution, conference, corporation, or government agency) that is the author of a book. In this database, CO is used for book reviews only.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .TI. | ARTICLE TITLE | kennewick.ti. |
| .JN. | JOURNAL TITLE | afterimage.jn. and 2006.yr. |
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .SU. | SUBJECTS | (art primitive).su.
(science and museum).su. |
| .PS. | PERSONAL NAME AS SUBJECT | scorsese.ps.
(hsueh wu).ps. (gauguin and self portrait).ps. |
| .SUBC. | CORPORATE NAME AS SUBJECT | pei.subc. |
| .SUBG. | GEOGRAPHIC NAME AS SUBJECT | kenya.subg. |
| .SUBJ. | TOPICAL SUBJECT | (children as artists).subj. |
| .SUTI. | TITLE AS SUBJECT | guernica.suti. |
SUBJECTS (.SU.) encompasses all kinds of subjects:
For more precise results, you may search by one of the specialized subject types listed below. However, to search these specialized fields effectively, you need to understand how records are constructed by the indexers.
PERSONAL NAME AS SUBJECT (.PS.): Name of artist and artwork, when the article is about an artist's work or includes an illustration.
CORPORATE NAME AS SUBJECT (.SUBC.): Name of organization (business firm, association, institution, conference, or government agency) discussed in the article.
GEOGRAPHIC NAME AS SUBJECT (.SUBG.): Name of place discussed in the article.
TOPICAL SUBJECT (.SUBJ.): Topical description of the content of the article, from the theasurus used by the professional indexers of this database.
TITLE AS SUBJECT (.SUTI.): Title of an artwork illustrated in the article.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AB. | ABSTRACT | (mandala and tibet).ab. |
| .RPNT. | REPRODUCTION NOTE | degas.au. and pastel.rpnt. |
These fields include abstracts and notes supplied by the indexers who create this database. You will find words from these fields when you search ALL FIELDS without qualification. It is unusual to search these fields directly, because you cannot generally predict their content. However, if you are searching one of these fields, omit stopwords.
REPRODUCTION NOTE (.RPNT.): Describes the medium and date of the original work being illustrated. Media are spelled out except for the following abbreviations:
drwg – Drawings
engr – Engraving(s)
etch – Etching(s)
litho – Lithograph(s)
paint – Painting(s)
photo – Photograph
sculp – Sculpture
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .YR. | YEAR | ceramics.jn. and 2006.yr. |
| .MO. | MONTH | artforum.jn. and 2006.yr. and april.mo. |
| .VO. | VOLUME | (oriental art).jn. and 55.vo. |
| .NO. | NUMBER | (fine woodworking).jn. and 185.no.
conservation.jn. and 50.vo. and 4.no. |
| .PGAT. | PAGINATION | brettell and 2003 and 36$.pgat. |
YEAR (.YR.): Year of publication of the article.
MONTH (.MO.): Month of the issue in which the article appeared. Months may be given as 3- or 4-letter abbreviations, or spelled out. English words are used for months and seasons, even for non-English journals.
VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.
NUMBER (.NO.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.
PAGINATION (.PGAT.): If you remember the starting page of an article but not the full citation, searching with PGAT might be useful. Enter the starting page and the truncation symbol $.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AN. | ACCESSION NUMBER | bart02014165.an. |
| .AT. | ARTICLE TYPE | schille and exhib$.at. |
| .BIO. | BIOGRAPHY CODE | ellis and b.bio. |
| .CP. | COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION | architecture and hk.cp. |
| .IL. | CONTAINS | okeeffe and (por or pors).il. |
| .IS. | ISSN | 0029-862x.is. |
| .LA. | LANGUAGE | landscape and swe.la. |
ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by .AN. is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.
ARTICLE TYPE (.AT.): A code or a spelled-out word describing the nature of the article. Note: book reviews do not have an article type, but do have the phrase "book review" as part of the title.
autob$ – Autobiography
bibli$ – Bibliography
biogr$ – Biography
bkexp or excerpt – Book excerpt
dramr or drama – Play review
exhib$ – Exhibit
featu$ – Feature article
intrv or interview – Interview
mpicr or film – Movie review
muscr – Musical comedy review
obitu$ – Obituary
oprar or opera – Opera review
phonr or sound – Sound recording review
sympo$ – Symposium
telpr or television – Television program review
viddr or video – Video recording review
BIOGRAPHY CODE (.BIO.): A code representing the biographical content of the article. Note that in this database, many articles coded "biography" are also obituaries.
b – Individual biography
d – Contains biographical material
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION (.CP.): A 2- or 3-character code representing the place of publication of the journal. For a complete list of codes, see MARC Code List for Countries at the Library of Congress. Examples:
at – Australia
fr – France
gw – Germany
ja – Japan
mx – Mexico
xxc – Canada
xxk – Great Britain
xxu – United States
CONTAINS (.IL.): Abbreviations for illustrations or other special content within the article.
bibl – Bibliography
bibl f – Bibliographical footnote
col – Color
cov or covs– Cover(s)
diag or diags – Diagram(s)
il – Illustrated
map or maps – Map(s)
plan or plans – Plan(s)
por or pors – Portrait(s)
pt col – Part color
tab or tabs – Table(s)
ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.
LANGUAGE (.LA.): A 3-character code identifying the language of the article. For a complete list of codes, see MARC Code List for Languages at the Library of Congress. Common codes:
dut – Dutch
eng – English
fre – French
ger – German
ita – Italian
jpn – Japanese
spa – Spanish
swe – Swedish
und – Undetermined (used for art reproductions and book reviews)
Note that citations for book reviews and art reproductions (no text) are labeled as language "undetermined." A limit to English or any other language retrieves only textual articles in that language, and eliminates citations for book reviews and art reproductions.
February 2007
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