Art History Subject Guide

Information by Region & Time Period

• Himalyan Region, South Asia, Southeast Asia
• Oceania, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
• Anatolia, Arabian Penninsula, Asia Minor, Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Mesopotamia
• China, Japan, Korea
• Central and North Asia
• Central, Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa, Sudan, Guinea Coast, Egypt
• South America, Central, Northern, and Southern Andes
• Central America, Maya Area, Mesoamerica, Mexico

Useful Links

• The Rock Art Foundation
• The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
• Cornell Mandala Research
• Aga Khan Award for Architecture
• Asian Reading Room (literature in 130+ Asian languages)
• Asia Society
• New York Public Library Early Prints and Photographs:
  • "Africana & Black History"
  • "Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim"
  • "The Floating World: Japanese Color Woodcuts by Kitagawa Utamaro"
• Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies

Notable Museums

• Museum of International Folk Art
• Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Islamic art)
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts (esp. Japanese prints)
• Mori Art Museum (in Tokyo)
• Cleveland Museum of Art (Southeast Asian art)
• Fitchburg Art Museum (African art)
• de Young Museum (African & Pacific art)
• Sicardi Gallery (Latin America)

Journals

• The Art Bulletin
• Art in America
• Artforum International
• ​African Arts
• Journal of African Cultural Studies
• ​​Asian Theatre Journal
• Journal of Islamic Architecture​