Art History
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Books
Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:
N Visual Arts in General
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing. Design. Illustration
ND Painting
NE Print Media
NK Decorative Arts
NX Arts in General
TR640 - TR688 Artistic Photography
Image Collections
The ARTstor Digital Library is a searchable database of digital images and associated data. It contains more than one million digital images in the subject areas of painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download, organise and share images.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
VADS has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows many significant online pictorial collections to be searched at the same time. When a search is conducted on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into search results.
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, the Bridgeman Image Library represents international museums, galleries and artists by providing a central source of fine art for image users.
ArtSource 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. This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive.
Search over 7.4 million records with 568,100 images and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key databases
Indexes 260 international art periodicals, covering all aspects and periods of art. Abstracts are available for references published from 1994 onwards.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Lists articles and books on European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers material published from 1975 to 2007.
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
Provides full text of over 70 major journals in art history. All volumes of each title are available, except the last few years.
Indexes international art journals from 1929 to 1984.
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organise images.
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