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Databases
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and enter your last name and barcode number from the back of your
library card. Grove Art Online contains the full-text of The Dictionary
of Art — the landmark encyclopedia of world art. Grove Art
Online also includes all 2,800 articles from The Oxford Companion
to Western Art [OCWA] and continues to offer new content .
Indexes
Art index. New York: H.W. Wilson. (See shelf for
holdings: 1965-2002) Ref N1 .A1 A7 v.15-49
Journal of aesthetics and art criticism: cumulative index, volumes,
1941-1977, subject index, author index, title index. Edited by John
Fisher; subject index by Lars Aagaard-Morgensen. Philadelphia: The
American Society for Aesthetics, c1979. Ref N70 .J6
Illustration index. Lucile E. Vance and Esther
M. Tracey. 2d. ed. New York: Scarecrow, 1966. Ref N7525
.V3 1966
Index to reproductions of American paintings: a guide to
pictures in more than eight hundred books. Isabel Stevenson
Monro and Kate M. Monro. New York: Wilson, 1948. Ref ND45
.M57
Index to reproductions of European paintings: a guide to
pictures in more than three hundred books. Isabel Stevenson
Monro and Kate M. Monro. New York: Wilson, 1956. Ref ND45
.M6
Sculpture index. Jane Clapp. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow,
1970-1971, 2 vols. in 3. [This indexes where a work is reproduced
and where it is located.] Ref NB .C55
Directories,
Indexes, Art Reference Sources
and Tours
ADAM
http://adam.ac.uk/
ADAM or the Art, Design,Architecture & Media Information Gateway
is a searchable catalogue of over 2,500 Internet resources that
have been selected and catalogued by professional librarians.
Aesthetics
http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/tree.jsp?c=40130
The leading academic websites reviewed and catalogued by university
experts in the field of Aesthetics.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Search hundreds of art museum sites for exhibits and artists. While
a commercial site, it is well organized and includes a valuable
search engine.
Art
History Resources on The Internet
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/ctich/arthistlinks.htm
The site is organized by these categories: Art History Gateways;
Image Libraries; Themed Exhibits and Collections; Focused Exhibits;
Online Catalogues; Organizations and Teaching, and Student Projects.
This site is maintained by Jim Everett, a CTICH Coordinator at the
University of Glasgow. The Computer Teaching Initiative Centre for
History, Archaeology & Art history is a subject based resource
site
Art History Resources
on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This Sweet Briar College Site is extraordinary and easily searched.
The global world of art is classified and indexed into five logical
subdivisions in accordance with the organization of Gardner's Art
through the Ages, a standard survey text of art published by
Harcourt and Brace: This is a very complete site and is well worth
a visit to.
Art
History Directory: Alliance for Lifelong Learning
http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/tree.jsp?c=230
This site is maintained through a learning partnership among Oxford,
Stanford and Yale Universities. It features the leading academic
websites in the subject area of Art History, reviewed and catalogued
by university experts.
ArtHistory Network
http://www.arthistory.net/
Art history, archaeology and architecture resources on the web,
including journal links.
Art
Journals Online
http://www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/tree.jsp?c=40639
Online journals, including the Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal.
ArtLex
http://www.artlex.com/
An art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators
interested in
production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and art education.
Artist Index
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
Index of artists with brief biographies on each, organized in alphabetical
order.
Art Theory
Criticism: A Directory Aesthetics
http://www.zeroland.co.nz/art_theory.html
Subject areas covered include art theory, art criticism, theoreticians
and semiotics.
Biographical Dictionary
of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art
http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/dah.htm
A unique database of biographical information about scholars and
historians in the Arts.
Digital Library
of Decorative Arts
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/
This University of Wisconsin sponsored site provides primary and
journal documents, searchable images, and additional resources for
information about the decorative arts.
Fine
Art Forum- Museums
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/museums.html
Listing of links to museum pages all over the world.
Images of Art
and Architecture
http://www2.art.utah.edu:81/index.html
"You will find some 4000 digitized reproductions of works of
art and architecture ranging from the period before written history
through the 20th century. Included here are representative examples
from around the globe. User friendly, searchable database.
Internet
Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum20.00.00/
Hundreds of previewed links created and maintained as a public service
organization and a learning/teaching environment by the University
of Michigan School of Information.
World Art Treasures -
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/
An unusual and creative source for slides organized by period and
location. Articles and essays are also provided here.
Words
of Art
http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fiar/glossary/gloshome.html
A Glossary of art terms created by their Department of Fine Arts,
Okanagan University College.
Tours
Tour of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=11
Go to The
Director's Choices for an overview of works from all collections,
or look specifically at the European
Painting Collection.
Tour with
Sister Wendy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/index.html
This is the online companion piece to the very popular art history
series on PBS. Sister Wendy Beckett takes viewers on a tour through
six of America's greatest art museums.
Tour of the Uffizi
http://musa.uffizi.firenze.it/
This is the official site of the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, which
houses some of the most important treasures of the Italian Renaissance.
Tour
of the Sistine Chapel
http://www.vatican.va/museums/patrons/documents/vm_l
This site provides information on and photographs of the Sistine
Chapel. Follow the link to the Sistine Chapel, but becareful not
to get lost in other areas of this Vatican site. Many areas of the
official Vatican page are incomplete, and links sometimes go nowhere.
Virtual
tour of the Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/visite/peint/peint_f.htm
Tour the Louvre without leaving home. This gallery by gallery guide
features all the highlights of this wonderful museum.
Essays
Online
Abstraction
& utopia
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/16/sept97/hilton.htm
Originally published in New Criterion, this article by renowned
art critic, Hilton Kramer, is presented here in its entirety.
After
the End of Art
http://www.linfield.edu/~rmills/lectures_folder/lect_danto_.html
Arthur C. Danto's view of the end of art historical narratives,
abstracted from his 1997 book After the End of Art; Contemporary
Art and the Pale of History, published by Princeton University Press
Alberti,
On Painting
http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Alberti/index.htm
This site features the English translation of Leon Battista Alberti's
classic text, Della Pittura, the first modern treatise on
the theory of painting. . "Although Della Pittura appeared
at a moment-1435-36-when the old and the new order in art were still
existing side by side in Florence, it broke with the Middle Ages
and pointed the way to the modern era."
Analyzing
a Work of Art
http://www.uscs.edu/~arthist/bowles/Analyzing.html
A short outline created by Professor Bowles for his art students
at University of Carolina Spartanburg.
Art
by Clive Bell
http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r13.html
"This essay is an excerpt from the book Art, originally published
in 1914. It is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced.
Clive Bell (1881-1964) was an English art critic best known for
promoting his theory of formalism."
Art,
and the Philosophy of Art,
Arthur Danto
http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361_r1.html
Originally published by Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 1983),
pp. 1-2. Arthur C. Danto (1924- ) is a well known art critic who
has written for the Nation. He is the author of a number of books
including The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of
Art (Harvard University Press, 1981) and is the Johnsonian Professor
of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University.
Artists
on Art
http://www.constable.net/arthistory/art-writings.html
Brief statements and sayings made by artists on their art. Included
here are Cassatt, Cezanne, Constable, daVinci, Delacroux, Giacometti,
Haring, Lkee, Matisse, Mondrian, Motherwell, Schnable, Van Gough,
Whistler and many more.
Camille Paglia
On Pre-Raphaelite Art From Sexual Personae.
http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/astro.htm
A discussion on this 19th century movement from the 1990's anti-feminist
party line, proto structuralist, angina inducing ahistorian of socio-political
cultural phenomenon. Intellectual heartburn with a twist.
Camile Paglia:
What is a Picture
http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/paglia1.htm
Paglia discusses Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
Foucault
on Magritte
http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.thisIsNotaPipe.en.html
Excerpts from the article “peindre n’est pas affirmer”
literally, “To Paint is Not to Affirm” on Magritte's,
This is Not a Pipe.
Online
Articles: Semiotics
http://www.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/semiotics/#Cultural
Articles on Cultural Semiotics by Professor Göran Sonesson
from Department of Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden.
Ruskin:
The Writings of John Ruskin
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/works.html
A very well constructed site featuring excerpts from all volumes
of Modern Painters, Joy Forever, Unto this Last, Fors Clavigera
and Stone of Venice. Also included are essays on Ruskin as well
as images. This site is a University Scholars Programme Project.
The
Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction
http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html
Walter Benjamin's important article is given here in its entirety.
Benjamin discusses various forms of artistic production, the history
of art reproduction up to the development of photography and film,
the idea of authenticity in art, and the role of the viewer or spectator.
Architecture
American
Architecture
http://www.vintagedesigns.com/architecture/links.htm
While a commercially based site, American Architecture provides
useful general information links organized by style, a Glossary
of historic house terms and an illustrated architecture dictionary.
Art
and Culture Network: Architecture
http://www.artandculture.com/arts/discipline?movementId=101
Brief articles on all aspects of architecture organized by geography,
time period and A-Z. Also featured are links to pages about individual
architects.
Architecture
Links on the World Wide Web
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/archweb_frames.html
A wonderful, extensive list of hundreds of links covering all areas
of architecture, created and maintained by Professor. Jeffery Howe
of the Fine Arts department at Boston College.
Buckminster
Fuller Page
http://www.thirteen.org/cgi-bin/bucky-bin/bucky.cgi
Not just about architecture, but a whole philosophy of life applicable
to everyone on space ship earth is described in this page, a companion
piece to the PBS special on this great man.
Digital
Archive of American Architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html
This Boston College site features photographs and illustrations
and is organized chronologically and by building type. Comparative
materials are also provided.
Frank
Lloyd Wright Links
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/flw_links.html
This site featuring numerous links is maintained by Boston College.
Cyburbia
http://www.cyburbia.org/
Cyburbia, the Internet's oldest portal site for urban planners and
others interested in cities and the built environment, contains
a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning
and urbanism. Originally created as "Planning and Architecture
Internet Resource Directory" or PAIRC, it is now a much richer
resource allowing links to be indexed in a hierarchical directory.
Profile
Search: Architectural Firms in the USA
http://www.firstsourceonl.com/profile/index.asp
A powerful search engine that will locate most architects working
in the United States.
Royal Institute
of British Architects
http://members.riba.org/library/rlinks.htm
This site includes a directory of links to international architectural
associations and organizations, as well as architectural firms worldwide.
Links are given to sites dedicated to the works of great architects
of the past such as Inigo Jones, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe,
Christopher Wren, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Gerrit Reitweld. Links
are also organized by periods and educational links are given too.
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