Australian Art History
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Artists and galleries of Australia
Books
Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:
N7400 - N7405 Australian Art in General
N7401 Indigenous Art
NB1100 - NB1105 Australian Sculpture
NC369 - NC371 Australian Drawing
ND1100 - ND1105 Australian Painting
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
Images
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.
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
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text
Indexes articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books in the social sciences and humanities. Some references are available in full text.
Indexes 260 international art periodicals, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in other languages. Abstracts are provided for references published from 1994.
Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.
Index of Australian art periodicals from 1987 to about 2003.
Index of books, articles and other material on all aspects of Australian indigenous studies.
Browse all databses for Art History
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