AHR net is the new name for the Arts:Search website and consists of four related and linked databases:
ReVIEW – Provides full text of arts and architecture journals
Arts + Architecture ProFILES – Includes biographical
data on over 40,000 artists, architects and designers
Design Abstracts Retrospective – Contains
abstracts of decorative, applied arts and design journals
published between 1900-1986. Includes over 60,000
entries
Research Sources: 1. THE POSTER – Contains extensive information on the Poster, including: A History of the Poster: a Bibliographical and Online Survey; digitizations of the most of the significant books, exhibition catalogues and journals on the Poster published between 1890s-1920s; and an International Directory of Poster Collections
We are currently digitizing most of the major art journals published in Europe and America between the 1830s and the 1920s, making many of them available for the first time online. It will be a significant contribution to art and design history scholarship and will open up many new areas of research.
All the titles are cross-searchable, and biographical information is being added on every artist whose
work is discussed or illustrated in the journals digitized.
Biographical Data
The biographical data we are adding includes:
- The correct and full name of an artist
- Their gender
- Dates and place of birth and death
- Nationality
- Areas of artistic activity
In the case of over 60% of the artists we have already included a detailed profile.
We are also adding supplementary bibliographies, as well as numerous Internet links. These are to additional sources of biographical information, images, and archival records.
Also on this website you can find our free to access AHR net Research Guides, which include:
- AHR net Research Guide No. 1: Internet Sources of Biographical Information on Artists, Designers, Architects and Craftspeople
- AHR net Research Guide No. 2: Free-access, Digitized Art, Architecture, Design and Craft Journals on the Internet
- AHR net Research Guide No. 3: Free-access Online Art History Journals, Newsletters and Blogs