Library Russian 244/ARHA 244

• ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1939 to present)
  Index covering North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database (1864 to present)
  Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, opera, film, television and more.
• Arts & Humanities Database
  Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (1991-2006)
  Citations to European multi-disciplinary scholarship on Slavic and East European subject matter. The index of articles published from 1975-1990 is in print-format only, in the Five-College Depository.
• BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art (1973 to present)
  Bilingual database on the history of post-classical western art. Also includes RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.
• International Bibliography of Art (IBA) (1973 to present)
  Covers scholarly literature on western art including traditional visual arts as well as new media, architectural history, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, and classical studies.
• JSTOR
  Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
• Project Muse
  Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
  Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).

• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.
• Oxford Art Online
  Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online, and other Oxford art reference works covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the present.
• International Encyclopedia of Dance (Online)
  Covers theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
• Oxford Reference
  Digitized entries from Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning multiple subject areas.
• Oxford companion to theatre and performance (Online)
  This Oxford Companion is based on the celebrated Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and covers styles and movements, organizations, regions and traditions; it has a particularly strong focus on biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers. New entries cover the people and companies who have come into prominence since the publication of the Encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture AC Ref  DK510.32 .E53 2007

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance  AC Ref PN2035 .O94 2003

• ARTstor
  Image database including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
• Kanopy Streaming Video
  Kanopy offers a broad selection of thousands of streaming films, documentaries, and theatrical releases covering a wide variety of subject areas, with additional new releases launched monthly. If close-captioning is not included, it can be requested. Interactive transcripts are included. Note that US feature films are not typically part of the Kanopy offerings.
• UbuWeb
  Large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Performing Arts Encyclopedia at the Library of Congress

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

"Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Afterall (electronic)

Art Forum International (electronic)

Artnews (electronic)

Flash Art

Performance Research (electronic)

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (electronic)

Slavic and East European Journal (electronic)

Current Digest of the Russian Press (electronic)

TDR (The Drama Review) (electronic)

Theater Journal

Subject Keywords to search in Five College Catalog:

Art, Russian                           Arts, Russian
Art and Society                      Experimental theater
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)       Art -- Political aspects
Conceptual art                       Modernism (Art)
Performance art                     Soviet Union
Theater -- Russia (Federation) 

Title Keywords to search in Five College Catalog to find reference texts:

bibliography                           companion
dictionary                               encyclopedia
guide                                      history

Research Guides that may be helpful:

Art & the History of Art
Film & Media Studies
Russian
Philosophy
Political Science

Helpful name and vocabulary resources:

Getty thesauri
Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)