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Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts

Applied Visual Arts www.bloomsburyappliedvisualarts.com Available now via perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Video/tutorial Click here to listen to the audio presentation Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts EN Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts CR Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts HU ?Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts RU Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts SK Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts RO Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts PL Featuring the best and most inspiring content for students and instructors across fields of visual arts practice. Th ... read more

Bloomsbury Architecture Library

Bloomsbury Architecture Library www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com Available via annual subscription to institutions worldwide. Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a leading digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. Its dynamic digital platform offers access to wide-ranging collections of text and image content, from architectural history to cutting-edge design guidance. Fully-searchable throughout, browsable by theme, or accessible through interactive features such as the visual timeline and world map, the content includes introductory guidance as well as in-depth research – making the Bloomsbury Architecture Library an ... read more

Bloomsbury Berg Fashion Library

The Berg Fashion Library The authority on world dress www.bergfashionlibrary.com “ …extensive and outstanding multidisciplinary coverage of dress, fashion and its impact on society.” —Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) What’s in the Berg Fashion Library Winner of the Dartmouth Medal, Berg Fashion Library is the leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is invaluable for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more. Download a full list of Berg Fashion Libr ... read more

Bloomsbury Design Library

Bloomsbury Design Library www.bloomsburydesignlibrary.com Available via annual subscription to institutions worldwide. Now Available! Offers access to a carefully curated collection of fully-searchable text and image content. Comprehensive, peer-reviewed reference works combine with cutting-edge academic research and a wealth of images to offer academics and students high-quality, intuitive and practical research tools. From Alvar Aalto to virtual reality design, and from authoritative reference information to innovative scholarly research, the Bloomsbury Design Library provides unrivalled coverage of design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day. ... read more

Bloomsbury Drama Online

Drama Online - a unique way to study drama Drama Online is an award-winning digital library of over 1,700 playtexts, 350 audio plays and 150 hours of video from leading theatre publishers and companies offering a complete multimedia experience of theatre. Designed to meet the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools, individual collections can be purchased separately to tailor Drama Online to your institution’s specializations. www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Videos and Tutorials Drama Online EN Drama Online HU Drama Online LT Drama Online PL Drama Online RO ... read more

Bloomsbury Fairchild Books Interior Design Library

www.fairchildbooksinteriordesign.com Available via perpetual access or subscription to institutions worldwide. Fairchild Books Interior Design Library offers all-in-one digital access to just under 70 acclaimed textbooks and dedicated supplementary resources from Fairchild Books, to support course delivery and learning across the entire interior design curriculum. Deliver the interior design curriculum, with all-in-one digital access to acclaimed textbooks and supplementary resources from Fairchild Books, the world's most comprehensive publisher in interior design educational materials. An exclusive digital textbooks solution for teaching and learning, Fairchild Book ... read more

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Bloomsbury Fashion Central www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com Videos and Tutorials Fashion Central EN Fashion Central CR Fashion Central HU Fashion Central LT Fashion Central PL Fashion Central RO Fashion Central RU Fashion Central SK The dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary teaching and research in fashion and dress. Interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, case studies, scholarly eBooks, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images ... read more

Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive

The Fashion Photography Archive Fashion Photography Archive showcases forty years of contemporary fashion history and is available for institutional purchase via subscription or perpetual access. Images are copyright-cleared for educational purposes and corporate licensing options are also available. A new online resource for students and researchers, now available! Over 600,000 high-quality images from fashion photographer Niall McInerney, covering both catwalk and street styles Core image collection curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele Additional resources include lesso ... read more

Bloomsbury Human Kinetics Dance Techniques

www.humankineticslibrary.com/human-kinetics-dance-technique A dynamic collection of leading dance material. Videos and Tutorials Human Kinetics Dance Technique CR Human Kinetics Dance Technique HU Human Kinetics Dance Technique LT Human Kinetics Dance Technique PL Human Kinetics Dance Technique RU Human Kinetics Dance Technique SK Featuring more than 500 videos and 850 audio clips alongside ebooks and images, Human Kinetics Dance Technique is a dynamic collection that presents instruction-focused material and fills in the gaps of dance in digital learning. A new prod ... read more

Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism

www.bloomsburysurrealism.com Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism is an exclusive digital resource presenting the first comprehensive and systematic overview of one of the most influential and enduring 20th-century art movements, from its beginnings to the present day. Available via perpetual access or subscription to institutions worldwide. Featuring a 3-volume major reference work, interactive timeline and rare archive images, portraits and artworks, this resource will be invaluable for academics and students in Art History/Theory, French Studies, Film Studies, Literary Studies, Photography and Visual Culture as well as Design/Fashion, Cultural History and S ... read more

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies September 2019 via subscription or perpetual access to institutions worldwide. Bloomsbury Medieval Studies is a new interdisciplinary digital resource with a global perspective. It will bring together high-quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work and pedagogical resources into one cross-searchable platform, to support students and scholars across this rich field of study. Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - not for reproduction Content Highlights Fully-searchable access to a broad range of over 150 scholarly books including primary texts, resear ... read more

Bloomsbury Popular Music

www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com Available via annual subscription to institutions worldwide. From acid house to zydeco, and from Acapulco to Zanzibar, Bloomsbury Popular Music provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day. Explore the historical origins and cultural impact of popular music from almost every country in the world Discover more about influential artists and albums, and local music scenes and subcultures Learn about everything from musical form and instruments to the workings of the music industry Research the social, political and economic context of different musical genres ... read more

Bloomsbury Screen Studies

Screen Studies www.screenstudies.com Target Courses: Film History, Film Theory, Film Practice, Media, Communication, Drama This dynamic digital platform takes users from script to screen and beyond - it comprises an exceptional collection of screenplays, critical and contextual books on film, and an interactive timeline of cinema history. Screen Studies is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning around film history, theory, and practice, and will be sold to universities and colleges worldwide via subscription or perpetual access. At launch, the site contains 60 screenplays, including Dunkirk, Interstellar, The G ... read more

Brill Arkyves Online

Arkyves Online Reference Tool for the History of Culture Hans Brandhorst & Etienne Posthumus ISSN: 2352-9334 Publication Type: Primary Source Online Imprint: BRILL Language: English http://arkyves.org/ Video and Tutorials Arkyves HU Arkyves EN Arkyves LT Arkyves PL Arkyves RO Arkyves RU Arkyves SK Arkyves is both a unique database of images and texts and a meeting place for everyone who wants to study imagery and publish about it. All visual and textual sources are made accessible with the help of the ... read more

Brill Art Sales Catalogues Online

Art Sales Catalogues Online Online Access to Complete Sales Catalogues from 1600-1900 Editor: Various Authors & Editors ISSN: 2210-7886 Annual update The Art Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO) publication offers easy access to complete historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900. Lugt's Répertoire Online database has been included in this publication and serves as the "entrance gate" to the catalogues. The earliest art sales catalogues, also known as auction catalogues, appeared in the early 17th century, as simple leaflets. Over time, the catalogues grew into ext ... read more

Brill Early Russian Cinema Online

Early Russian Cinema Online View PDF Flyer Advisor: R. Yangirov This unique collection of Russian film periodicals from the last tsarist decade includes both sophisticated and more popular periodicals released by the major Russian film studios. Containing interviews with movie stars and now irretrievably lost screenplays, these journals will prove an invaluable source about the silent movie era and Russia's entertainment industry at the eve of the Revolution. Number of titles: Part 1: 13 Part 2: 20 Part 3: 24 Languages used: Russian Contents Background Location of originals Free Trial Access Available For more information ... read more

Brill Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection 2019 Author: Various Authors & Editors Institutional outright purchase price The Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection is a collaboration between Brill and Harvard University Asia Center. This collection includes 528 titles published by Harvard University Asia Center by June 2019. Nearly all titles belong to one of three monograph series: Harvard East Asian Monographs (about 410 titles), Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs (about 90 titles), and the Harvard Contemporary China Series (about a dozen titles). Around 16-20 new titles will be added to the collection annually ... read more

Brill Historical Garden Design Online 2018

Historical Garden Design Online Sources from the 16th to the 19th centuries Editor: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn A rich resource for garden, art and architectural historians, this primary source collection of 178 titles covers a broad range of subjects regarding the theory and practice of gardening, horticulture and garden design. Technological aspects are treated as well as garden ornaments, garden buildings, plant use, and the construction of green houses. The collection includes such watershed works as Salomon de Caus´ Hortus Palatinus (1620), Dominicus Barrière's Villa Aldobrandina Tusculana sive varij illius hor ... read more

Brill History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online

History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online Advisor: Professor Charlotte Douglas, New York University The collection documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. It also offers a selection of early20th century art-related serials. These historical sources of pre- and post-revolutionary art reflect the diversity of artistic thought in the first thirty years of the 20th century. History of Modern Russian and Ukrainian Art Online: Monographs and Serials, 1907-1930 Scarcity Sources for the history of modern and avant-garde Russian and Ukrainian art have long ... read more

Brill Imperial Russias Illustrated Press Online

Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press Online Advisor: Jeffrey Brooks View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 5 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: The National Library of Russia Nothing illuminates the lost world of late Imperial Russia better than the pictorial magazines of the era. The illustrated weeklies gathered in this collection open a wide window on Russian cultural, social, and political life. Their editors traced the sweep of the Russian imagination at the apogee of Russian cultural power from the peak years of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to the modernist era and the chaos of 1917. They captured imperial expansion, cultural ... read more

Brill Jewish Theater under Stalinism Online

Jewish Theater under Stalinism Online View PDF Flyer Number of titles: Fond 2307, opis’ 1-2 and Fond 2308, opis’ 1 - from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), Moscow Dates: (inclusive): 1916-1950 Languages used: Russian, Yiddish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Belarus, Georgian, Latvian EAD finding aids are available Location of originals: the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) in Moscow This collection of archival documents contains material that describes the history of Soviet culture and theatre, Jewish avant-garde art and the Kremlin’s policy toward Jewish society and cultur ... read more

Brill Mass Media in Russia Online

Mass Media in Russia Online (Parts 1 and 2) View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 11 titles (Part 1), Penny (Kopeck) Magazines (Part 2) Languages used: Russian Location of originals: The National Library of Russia, St.-Petersburg This unique collection consists of complete runs of the kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated newspapers in the beginning of the twentieth century, published under various titles in St. Petersburg and Petrograd (1908-1918) and also in Moscow (1909-1918). These (penny) newspapers document political and social developments in Russia in the pivotal years from 1908 to 1918 and at the same time provide a mirror of the colorful social ... read more

Brill Popular Literature Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia

Popular Literature Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia View PDF Flyer Advisor: Jeffrey Brooks Number of titles: 208 Languages used: Russian E-ISBN: 978 90 04 19266 9 Location of originals: The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg The collection illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature and includes chivalric tales, historical fiction and updated fairy tales, as well as stories of adventure, banditry, detectives, success, war and empire, women and gender. The collection also includes rags-to-riches tales of social mobility, adventures set in Siberia and the Caucasus, and the stories of the occult world ... read more

Brill Richard Wagner Online

Richard Wagner Online First published 2018 View PDF Flyer This resource presents a broad cross-section of the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, which possesses one of the world’s finest collections of Wagneriana. The collection consists of Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner’s Mein Leben, 1870-1880; Mathilde Wesendonck's Complete Published Writings. Richard Wagner Online The bibliography on Richard Wagner is huge. He has stirred passions, love, and hatred in equal measure - sometimes (as in the case of Friedrich Nietzsche) within the same breast ... read more

Brill Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online

Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century Online View PDF Flyer Number of titles: 19 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: National Library of Russia, Russian Academy of Sciences Library This collection of writings reveals the eventful history of Russia during the revolutionary era, from the perspective of metropolitan and provincial newspapers and journals published by the most radical political forces. Furthermore, these materials shed new light on the relationship of the anarchists with the Bolsheviks and the Soviet State, and also reveal the impact of anarchist ideas on the literature and art of the p ... read more

Brill Russian Avant-Garde Online

Russian Avant-garde Online Advisor: A. Krusanov Number of titles: 778 Languages used: Russian E-ISBN: 978 90 04 19267 6 View PDF Flyer Location of originals: The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg This collection represents works of all Russian literary avant-garde schools. It comprises almost 800 books, periodicals and almanacs most of them published between 1910-1940 and thus off ers an exceptionally varied and well-balanced overview of one of the most versatile movements in Russian literature. The books in this collection can be regarded as objects of art, illustrated by famous artists such as Malevich, Goncharova and Lisitskii. This collection ... read more

Brill Soviet Cinema Online part 1 Journals part 2 Newspapers

Soviet Cinema Online part 1 Journals part 2 Newspapers Advisor: Rashit Yangirov View PDF Flyer Part 1: Journals Online Number of titles: 27 Languages used: Russian Part 2: Newspapers Online Number of titles: 20 Languages used: Russian Location of originals: National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg The collection includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the most interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian film. These publications are largely absent from book collections in the West, and are now presented for the first time as a large, complete set. They s ... read more

DeGruyter Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon - Internationale Kunstlerdatenbank - Online

DeGruyter Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online DE GRUYTER SAUR Edited by: Wolf Tegethoff, Bénédicte Savoy, Andreas Beyer https://doi.org/10.1515/AKL ISSN 1865-0511 Language: German, English Browse All Content The database Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online (Artists of the World Online) is the world’s most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1.2 million artists – more than any other database in the world! Online First: new, edited articles from A to Z are published on ... read more

DeGruyter Art Market Dictionary AMD Online to be published March 2019

Art Market Dictionary – AMD Online Ed. by Nathan, Johannes Editorial Board Member: Chagnon-Burke, Véronique / Hartung, Martin / Huemer, Christian / Korbei, Veronika / Koster, Emmelie / Marsh, Andrew / Penot-Lejeune, Agnès / Pérez Ibáñez, Marta / Rieder, Gábor / Simoncelli, Silvia / Severin, Ingrid Leonie / Skowronek, Thomas / Smith, Matthew Ryan ISSN 2365-8967 Language: English Overview The AMD is the first comprehensive scholarly guide to art market galleries, auction houses, agents, etc. from multiple national and historical contexts It will comprise three volumes with ca. 2,000 entries, ... read more

DeGruyter Building Types Online

Building Types Online Editor-in-Chief: Heckmann, Oliver ISSN: 2297-6442 Language: English Year 2016 Videos Building Types Online EN Building Types Online HU Building Types Online LT Building Types Online PL Building Types Online SK innovative and comprehensive online resource for teaching and practice of architectural design Large international collection of contemporary buildings: housing, schools, libraries, office buildings, museums, sacred buildings, industrial complexes and other building types Comprises currently approx. 5000 drawings and 2000 photos The high-quality architectura ... read more

DeGruyter Gemalde in Museen

Gemalde in Museen - Deutschland, Osterreich, Schweiz Online www.degruyter.com Katalog der ausgestellten und depotgelagerten Werke Catalogue of Exhibited Works and Depository Holdings DE GRUYTER SAUR Language: German ISSN 2193-3049 rental option or purchase option only inventory of 178,000 paintings in 645 museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Detailed information on paintings including the year of origin, technique, format, theme, artist, museum A variety of combinable search criteria, e.g. painting title, classification (painting), date of origin, artist, and museum Creation of lists Link to Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the Wo ... read more

Taylor and Francis Arts eBook section

With over 6.000 eBook in the eclectic area of the Arts, Taylor & Francis/Routledge offers one of the largest collections of titles available - covering Film, Theatre, Music, Fine Art, Photography, Art History, Dance, Music Therapy, Animation, Gaming, Social and Political aspects of the Visual and Performing Arts. The authors come from across the world and the themes reflect a multitude of different cultural traditions. For a complete listing of the titles please follow this link: Taylor & Francis eBooks in the Arts All eBooks reside on the Taylor & Francis platform – home to over 130.000 titles. EBook titles can be purchased individually, subscrib ... read more

Taylor and Francis History of Feminism

Routledge History of Feminism Academic Editor Ann Heilmann is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, UK History of Feminism is a new online platform that brings together the best and most relevant scholarship from Taylor & Francis, its imprints, and its authors. This resource will provide both academics and students with an in-depth research tool for studying the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes: Politics ... read more