ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design offers a unique and wide-ranging selection of content in art, design, architecture, and fashion, combining primary sources, archives, videos, and bibliographies for both historical and contemporary studies.
It includes rare materials, leading magazine archives, scholarly journals, documentary videos, and specialist indexes across various sub-fields like fine art, applied art, landscape architecture, graphic design, and fashion history. This resource provides an exceptional historical record of significant movements, trends, and figures, highlighting the theory and practice of diverse art forms while supporting multi-disciplinary exploration across disciplines like architecture, fashion, and design aesthetics.
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Over 6 million pages of extensive primary source materials ranging from 1860-present relevant to the arts, architecture, design, and related topics
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500 peer-reviewed academic journals & 170 full-text primary source serials
This interdisciplinary resource presents over a century’s worth of visual and textual content, offering primary sources for research in art, architecture, and design. Detailed articles, advertisements, photographs, and critical essays, empower users to gain deeper insights and broaden their understanding of visual media and cultural history.
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Access to specialized content in art, design, architecture, photography and fashion, including bibliographies, historical periodical and magazine archives, fashion video, and more.
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ProQuest Digital Collections offers discipline-aligned multiformat content and vast primary sources spanning six centuries of essential content to serve researchers and students of all levels. The subscription includes many rare and exclusive resources, encompassing over 160 million primary source items. With broad, affordable access of scholarly content, the resource supports Black Studies, Anthropology, Entertainment & Popular Culture, Global Studies & International Relations, History, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts & Design, and Women's Studies.
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