Bibliography Women Writing about Art

The bibliography systematically records texts by women who have written on art and art historical topics for the period up to around 1930. The aim is to make the writings of these women authors, who often receive little attention in the canon of art history, digitally accessible and thus more visible and better known. The thematic breadth, significance and interconnectedness of these authors, but also the hurdles and limitations of their research and writing, become apparent.

The bibliography Women Writing about Art is a joint project of the Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and Heidelberg University Library. The database is maintained and operated in Heidelberg as part of the DFG programme "Specialized Information Services for Science". The titles identified together with the ZI Munich or suggested by scholars are created and indexed in the library network K10Plus using the standards data of the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND). The presentation is carried out by means of the discovery system VuFind, which was developed as open source software. The database currently contains around 2,800 publications by more than 800 women - a large part is available as an online resource in open access and thus a quick information gain is possible via full text search.

Link to the bibliography "Women Writing about Art“

The digital repository will be added to successively. If you have titles that should be included, we would be pleased to receive an email. In the ZI Spotlight, the blog of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), articles on the topic and the current state of research are also published regularly in the category "Women Writing about Art".

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