Artcyclopedia
www.artcyclopedia.com
A comprehensive guide to art on the Internet. This site is searchable by artist's name, artworks by title, medium, subject matter and art museums by name/place.Artchive
www.artchive.com/core.html
The core of this site is a collection of more than 2,200 scans of works of over 200 artists. Juxtapositions is a collection of art exhibit reviews with images links;Theory and Criticism has excerpts of texts written by prominant art historians, hyperlinked to the art being discussed as well as links to major art resources.
Art History Resources
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
An excellent place to begin art research. One of the most comprehensive art web sites. Excellent links to information about all periods in art, images, research resources, museums and galleries, and artist information. Developed and maintained by Sweet Briar College Art History Professor Chris Witcombe.
Artlex -Visual Arts Dictionary
www.artlex.com/
Over 3, 100 terms are defined with links to illustrations and related Web sites.
Arts Journal
www.artsjournal.com
Excellent resource of current art news. Click on the Visual Arts. Links to articles in art journals as well as newspapers. International in scope. Includes access to information on dance, media, music, publishing, and theater. There is also an archive that goes back one year.
Artists Portraits
www.the-artists.org
The emphasis is on 20th century art movements and artists as well as contemporary artists. Comprehensive source with links to quality web sites.
Art Source
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
Contains links to information on artist's projects, architecture resources, events, image collections, new media, vendor information, art and architecture programs, art journals online and electronic exhibitions. The content is diverse and includes pointer to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc. This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive.
AskART
askart.com
Over 25,000 North American artists-painters, sculptors, and illustrators-are listed in this searchable resource. Included are digital images of the artists' work as well as auction data, brief biographies, book references, and periodical citations.
Corbis
www.corbis.com
The Corbis collection contains more than 2.1 million online images.
Dictionary of Art Terms
www.aliceville.com/artdic_0.htm
Comprehensive and good source for art definitions and terms.
Ditto.com
ditto.com
Ditto is a visual search engine that delivers relevant thumbnail images that can be enlarged and relevant web sites underlying these images.
Gateway To Art History
www.harcourtcollege.com/arts/gardner/
Harcourt College Publishers' art history resources on the web. Compiled for use with Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Covers all periods in art history with excellent links to information on artists, images and other research resources.
Google Image Search
images.google.com/
"Google's Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 250 million images."
Great Buildings
www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/search.html
This site includes architecture from around the world and across history. It can be searched or browsed by buildings, architects, architectural types, places.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divison's Resources
lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/bibsguid.html
Includes to information on use of its guides, reference aids and finding aids. Some collections include digital images.
The New York Public Library Photography Collection
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/photo.html
The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes. The collection's documentary focus encompasses social documentation, portraits, topographical views, cityscapes, and events in subject areas that complement the bibiographic strengths of the humanities and Social Sciences Library.
Ready Reference Web Site-Biography
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/electronic_resources/readyref/biography.htm
The New York Public Library Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans From The 19th Century
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Images can be searched by category e.g. Civil War or by keyword.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
www.aaa.si.edu/
This collection comprises the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents. The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for the AAA's oral history program and nearly one thousand photographs in the AAA's photographs of Artists Collections, provides excellent source material. A large portion of the collections are the personal papers of artists-painters, sculptors, printmakers, craftsmen, photographers and architects.
Time Inc. Picture Collection
www.thepicturecollection.com
Great collection of photographic images from the 20th century. The collection can be searched by subject, event or photographer.
Union List of Artists Names (ULAN)
www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/
The ULAN Browser is a database of names and associated information (such as dates, variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants) about artists. "Artists" can include individuals or groups of individuals working together and range from painters to ceramicists, and architects to draftsmen. Part of the Getty Vocabulary Program.
University of Michigan: Art Department
www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/
Excellent source for research, resources for visual collections, image collections and online art, online exhibits, art museums and textual and linguistic resources.
Maintained by graduate students at the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan.
World Wide Arts Resources
wwar.com
This site is a great searchable directory of art sites with more than 3000 categories. Some of the major categories include: Museums, Antiques, Arts Resources, Commercial Arts and Galleries, Artist Index, Festivals, and Performance Art.
Multi-Subject
Dissertation Abstract
www.firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=Diss;done=referer;autho=100207621;FSIP
Contains Dissertations and theses from U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and other European countries. Coverage begins in 1861. Abstracts since 1980, thesis abstracts since 1988.
Ebsco Online
www-us.ebsco.com/online/default.asp
Access to full-text journal articles plus table or contents and abstracts to many journals.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world and legal information for your term papers.
[Available on campus and through proxy server]
netLibrary
www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
An electronic library containing hundereds of books.
[Available on and off campus.]
Just Art
Art Index
newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=ArtAbstracts;done=referer;FSIP
Index of leading international Arts Publications. As well as books and other materials in libraries world wide.
Art Literature International
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6287
Art Literature International abstracts and indexes current publications on the history of art. The database is produced by RILA, the International Repertory of the Literature of Art, and corresponds to the printed publication, RILA. More than half of the records contain informative abstracts. All aspects of Western art are covered from Late Antiquity (4th Century) to the present.
Subject coverage: sculpture; architecture; painting; drawing; prints; decorative arts; manuscripts and illumination; books and illustration; photography; industrial design; scenography; landscape architecture and gardens; city planning; conceptual art and new media; iconography; collecting and patronage; exhibitions; art theory and criticism; artists, movements, and schools; techniques; conservation and restoration; museums and galleries.
Art Literature International cites a wide array of documents including: books, collected essays, Festschriften, conference proceedings, museum publications, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and periodical articles. Book and exhibition reviews, obituaries, interviews, and published lectures are included. Individual essays are included as separate abstracts.
Bibliography of the History of Art
dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6178
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) abstracts and indexes current publications on the history of art. BHA is the successor to RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art, and RAA (Repertoire d' Art et d' Archeologie). The database is a joint effort of the Art History Information Program (AHIP) of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Institut de l' Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. The database corresponds to the print bibliography of the same name.
Subject coverage: BHA covers the current literature of European art from late Antiquity (4th c. AD) to the present, and American art from the European discoveries to the present. The database covers those publications from 1991 to present.
BHA records consist of bibliographic citations, abstracts, and indexing. Abstracts may be in English or French. The database is available with both English and French indexing.
