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Design Research Publications
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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.

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