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eResources for Art & Art History

Contents

  1. Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
  2. Subscription Image Collections
  3. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks
  4. Selected Online Resources
  5. Full-Text Journals

Indexes, Abstracts, Full-Text Databases & Subscription Image Collections

Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases
Subscription Image Collections

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks & Bibliographies

Selected Online Resources

Architecture.com
Online home of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), whose mission is to "further the cause of architecture in politics and culture, in the UK and internationally." Site includes RIBApix, an image library devoted to architecture.

Archives of American art
Supports the study of visual arts in America through digital access to thousands of photographs of artists and art-world figures, letters, sketchbooks, diaries, printed materials, ephemera, and other documents from the Smithsonian Institution's archives collections.

CAMEO: conservation and art material encyclopedia online
An electronic database that compiles, defines, and distributes technical information on terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation as an extension of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

CDRI: cooperative digital resources initiative
A joint project of the American Theological Library Association and the Association of Theological Schools offering access to digitized unique local collections. Items represented include woodcuts, photographs, slides, coins, maps, postcards, llithographs, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Chinese ceramics
The Pacific Asia Museum's (Pasadena, CA) tutorial on the history of Chinese ceramics. Covers a broad span of ceramic types from every major dynasty and stylistic type while considering their impact on world economics and culture.

Finding Images on the Web: An annotated guide to multidisciplinary image resources
Image resources chosen by Shadek-Fackenthal's Visual Resources division; coverage includes Art History, Architecture, Photography, Artists' Books, Humanities, Social Sciences, Area Studies, and Science.

Nineteenth-century art worldwide
Free e-journal of 19th-century painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, architecture, and decorative art. Geographic coverage is extensive, and contents include scholarly, illustrated articles and book and exhibition reviews. Published by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, an affiliate of the College Art Association.

Online Image Resources
An annotated list of online image resources organized by discipline.

A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture
Art- and architecture-related images, virtual tours, and essays from the World's Fair Collection at the Architecture Library, University of Maryland.

Visual Information Access, Harvard University Libraries
Web union catalog of visual resources representing Harvard's repositories (archives, museums, libraries, and other collections) and documenting "the arts, material culture, and social history." Some records allow access to larger-scale images that are adequate for teaching and research.

William C. Brumfield Collection: Library of Congress prints and photographs online catalog
Over 1,000 photographs of everyday life in the Russian North from the personal collection of a professor of Russian studies at Tulane University. Recommended for its uniqueness, visual interest, and cultural and historical value.

Full-Text Journals

The Library may not subscribe to all journal volumes found at these links. Please check Journals @ F&M for complete holdings information. Last updated: 5/12/08 ks