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ART SUBJECT GUIDE
DAAI: Design and Applied Index. DAAI is an index to journal articles published in craft and design journals since 1973. It is an index that contains references and abstracts (summaries) only, not full text. DAAI covers all areas of design and art with a particular emphasis on the crafts and applied arts, including: ceramics, graphics, fashion, textiles, photography, typography, printmaking, jewelry, and architecture. Infotrac OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.
Art and Humanities Citation Index. Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Includes some related social and science information. Indexes over 1,300 sources and is updated weekly.
Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw Book, 15 vols., 1972. This 15-volume set covers the art and architecture of all peoples and periods. Location: First Floor, Reference Area, Call number: REF E31.E4833. Grove's Dictionary of Art. Jane Turner, editor. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. This 34 volume set is well written, and attractively illustrated. Location: First Floor, Reference Area, Call number: REF N31.D5. Online version of Grove's Dictionary of Art is also available.
International Dictionary of Art and Artists. by Cecil Gould. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990. This work provides biographical information about famous artists Also discusses their major works. Location: First Floor, Reference Area, Call number: REF N7425.I67.
St. James Guide to Black Artists. Thomas Riggs, editor. Detroit: St James Press, 1997. Contains biographical and career information, as well as brief critical essays, on nearly four hundred of the most prominent black artists. Location: First Floor, Reference Area, Call number: REF N40 .S78.
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms. by Edward Lucie-Smith. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984. More then 2000 entries define and explain terms from painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative and applied arts, and the graphic arts, together with techniques of photography. Location: First Floor, Reference Area, Call number: Ref N33 .L75. . ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway. Searchable catalogue of over 2500 Internet resources covering a broad range of topics including art, design, architecture, applied arts, and art theory. Its also browsable by subject, historical period, resource type, and location and geographic form. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser. Definitions in art, architecture and material culture. The vocabularies provide terminology and other information about objects, concepts, artists, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in these subjects.
Artchive. The core of this most excellent art site is a collection of more than 2,200 of the best scans of works of over 200 artists. If you have a good monitor you'll get a sense of the potential for digitized images. In addition: Galleries contains scanner and curator Mark Harden's online exhibitions (not to be missed!); Juxtapositions is a collection of art exhibit reviews with the images linked; Theory and Criticism has some of the best in art criticism, hyperlinked to the art being discussed; reviews of art CD-ROMS; and a collection of links to major art resources.
ARTCYCLOPEDIA. This site serves as a comprehensive index to the online exhibits of thousands of artists. Search by artist's name or browse A to Z listing. The focus is primarily painting and sculpture. Includes an image archives.
Art History Resources on the Web. Art History Resources is a fine jumping-off spot for online explorations of art by period or by culture. The directory's strength is western art history, but it also contains a section with ample links to sites featuring non-European art. Art in Context. Art in Context was established in 1995 to serve the international fine art community and generapublic by providing an online reference library for the publication and dissemination of information about artists and where to find their work. Art Source. This website is a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers 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.com. Over 23,000 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. Information about this New York City museum, floor plans detailing what type of art is located where, a calendar of events and exhibitions, and a sampling of the museum's collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Information about this New York City museum, floor plans detailing what type of art is located where, a calendar of events and exhibitions, and a sampling of the museum's collection. Mother of all art history links. This site includes research resources, resources for visual collections, on line art and images, and links to a wide variety of topics relevant to art history (including art museums and sacred art) Museum of Modern Art. Examples from the collections of this New York City museum: painting and sculpture, drawings, prints, illustrated books, architecture, design, photography, film, video, and much more. National Gallery of Art. Fine web resource on the collections, activities, and services of the U.S.'s finest and largest public-owned museum. The number of both small and enlarged colored images that can be retrieved from the site's "Collections" section is truly outstanding Saping-Archit\ecture, Planning and Landscape Information Gateway. This database contains over 700 links to websites, books, and news stories, organized by theme. Smithsonian Institution. The United States' national museum is actually composed of 16 museums and galleries, the National Zoo and numerous research facilities, with more than 240 million artifacts and specimens in its collections. Each of the facilities has a Web site and fantastic online exhibits of its holdings. A sampling of the collections include: the National Air & Space Museum, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, the Arthur M. Sackler & Freer Galleries (Asian Art), the American Art Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. VLMP, Virtual Library Museums Pages. A comprehensive directory of on-line museums an museum-related resources. World Wide Arts Resources. This site has the most extensive collection of art-related links. Key sections include "Artist Index, " "Art Museums," "Employment," etc.
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