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*Art and Visual Culture: Articles, Images, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias
Image resources. Establish an account to download images to MS PowerPoint. Coverage: Ancient to contemporary.
Particularly strong in all areas of art, architecture, design, and illustration (including maps) but also featuring images relevant to the humanities and sciences.
Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.
Search Oxford Art Online for basic facts and background information on the history of art. While the emphasis is on Western art history, some topics in world art are covered.
Some overlap with Art and Architecture Complete, but more international coverage. Begins 1984.
Art Abstracts indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Coverage 1929-1984. Indexing is less detailed than that of Art Abstracts. Useful for art historiography and some primary research, but less useful for modern critical understanding of AVC.
The database cites articles from 600 publications from the world. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
In addition to periodical coverage, indexes books and exhibition catalogs. Coverage ca. 1975-2007.
The Bibliography of the History of Art is the most comprehensive art bibliography available, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Broad in scope, the bibliography's citations encompass fine arts as well as decorative and applied arts.
Images and illustrations licensed for use in presentations. Establish an account to download to MS Powerpoint.
Particularly strong in all areas of art, architecture, design, and illustration (including maps) but also featuring images relevant to the humanities and sciences.
(Formerly Index of Christian Art) Particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. Significant additional holdings from Coptic Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and the Near East. Coverage: Early apostolic times up to 1550
The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1550 (some manuscript holdings up to the middle of the sixteenth century). Particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. This has been corrected over the last few years with the addition of significant holdings from Coptic Egypt, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Syria, Armenia, and the Near East. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, etc.
Art images licensed for academic, non-profit uses. Collection is particularly rich in images of ancient art and architecture, and medieval architectural detail. Coverage: Ancient to 20th Century
Strengths include ancient Greek and Roman archaeological sites and Islamic Spain including the Alhambra and the Great Mosque of Cordoba.
Comprehensive collection of images (including the fashion collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the costume collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Searchable by keyword, time, place, and culture.
Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Searchable by date or location. Includes a virtual collection of thematic essays which provide historical context.
