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Repository of the Week - Getty Research Portal

Published: Fri, 2012-06-22 14:12 by Amy Cross
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The Getty Research Portal provides global access to digitised art history texts in the public domain. The catalogue is multilingual, and provides an open access platform from which to search and download digital copies of publications in the scholarly areas of art, architecture, material culture and other fields.

Celebrating International Art Week... Oxford University Press - free three month trial to Cyberschool members

Published: Mon, 2012-05-21 12:54 by Pauline McLeod
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To celebrate International Art Week, Oxford University Press would like to highlight a key secondary Art resource, Oxford Art Online.

Animal/Human Exhibition @ UQ Art Museum

Published: Tue, 2012-05-08 15:27 by Kerri Klumpp
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Need a break from study?

Then head over to the UQ Art Museum this Friday 11 May at 4:30 pm for the Talking About Animals Seminar before the ANIMAL/HUMAN exhibition opening.

More details here.

Australian Art History

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

New McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art

Handbooks: 

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

Dictionaries: 

The dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

A dictionary of women artists of Australia

Oxford Art Online

Image Collections
Image Collections: 

ARTstor

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

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.

Bridgeman Image Library

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.

Journal Articles: 

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.

Wilson Art Abstracts

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.

ArtBibliographies Modern

Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

AustArt Index

Index of Australian art periodicals from 1987 to about 2003.

Mura

Index of books, articles and other material on all aspects of Australian indigenous studies.

Browse all databses for Art History

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Cambridge Companion to Australian Art

Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture

Australasian art obituaries index

Statistics
Statistics: 

Artfacts (Australia Council for the Arts)

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO)

National Gallery of Australia - Online Research Resources

Queensland Art Gallery

Picture Australia

Prints and Printmaking: Australia, Asia, Pacific

Google Rock Art Project

Art History

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Oxford Art Online

The Oxford companion to the photograph

Handbooks: 

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

Dictionaries: 

The Oxford dictionary of art and artists

A dictionary of modern & contemporary art

The Oxford companion to Western art

Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory

Image Collections
Image Collections: 

ARTstor

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

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.

Bridgeman Image Library

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.

National Gallery of Art (Washington)

Images made available from the NGA's collection

Smithsonian Institution

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.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Wilson Art Abstracts

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.

ArtBibliographies Modern

Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

JSTOR

Provides full text of over 70 major journals in art history. All volumes of each title are available, except the last few years.

Art Retrospective

Indexes international art journals from 1929 to 1984.

ARTstor

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.

Browse all databses for Art History

Multimedia
Multimedia: 

Library Multimedia Streams on Demand - Art History Documentaries

Specialised Resources
Specialised Resources: 

Encyclopedia of comparative iconography: themes depicted in works of art

Guide to research in classical art and mythology

Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art

Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture

Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography

Statistics
Statistics: 

Artfacts (Australia Council for the Arts)

Arts & Culture in Australia - a Statistical Overview (Australian Bureau of Statistics)

Web Sites
Web Sites: 

Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO)

Art History Resources on the Web

Art Museums Worldwide

Union List of Artist Names Online

Smarthistory

Internet Sources of Biographical Information

Google Art Project

Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA Collection

MetPublications

Louvre Museum

Guggenheim (New York, Venice, Bilboa, Abu Dhabi)

Who's who in art history

Published: Wed, 2011-06-22 09:33 by Belinda Weaver
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Duke University has created a Dictionary of Art Historians. This listing of historic scholars, museum professionals, and academic historians of western art history not only lists significant people, but also provides information on where they trained, who influenced them, and their methodology. The site is available in German, French, Dutch, and Italian as well as English.