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- Artcyclopedia free Website
indexing major artists; includes brief biographical sketches and links
to artists' works.
- Art in Context
a comprehensive, continually updated, and publicly funded clearinghouse
of information on contemporary artists, their work and their dealers.
- ArtNet.com commercial site containing
listings for over 1,300 galleries, 36,000 works and 13,000 artists.
- Biography
and Geneaology MasterIndex (updated biannually) Comprehensive
index to 12 million biographical sketches. Check Morgan Library holdings
for individual sources. CSU affiliates only.
- Biography
Index scans 2,700 journals and 1,800 books on a regular basis.
A good source to get information on a specific artist. Covers 1984
to the present. CSU affiliates only.
- See also a number of print reference sources on artists'
biographies listed on the Print
Reference Sources page of this guide.
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- GT - 500-2370 Costume, Fashion
- N - Visual Arts, Art History
- NA - Architecture
- NB - Sculpture
- NC - Drawing, Design Illustration
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- NE - Print Media
- NK - Decorative Arts
- NX - Arts in General
- TR - Photography
- TT - Arts, Crafts
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Dictionaries
and Encyclopedias
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ArtLex comprehensive visual arts
dictionary; includes definitions of more than 2,800 terms with illustrations,
pronunciations, quotations, and links to Web resources.
Art Online
(updates vary) online version of the monumental 34 volume print version
with encyclopedia-like entries to major periods and themes in the history
of art; includes over 41,000 articles, news, and, a hyperlinked
alphabetical index. CSU affiliates only.
Words
of Art Dictionary of terms relating to art theory and criticism
by Robert Belton at Okanagan University College.
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Collections and Image Search Engines
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- AltaVista
Image Finder a comprehensive search engine with an advanced feature
which allows you to limit to photo, graphic, or button/banner. You
can also specify color or black and white.
- AMICO Thumbnail
Catalog the public version of the larger consortial database of
images culled from major art collections in museums and universities.
- Art Images
for College Teaching produced by Allan Kohl from the Minneapolis
College of Art & Design, allows for browsing by chronology for
wester art with a separate category for non-western.
- Artcyclopedia
free Website maintained by John Malyon, which indexes major artists
with brief biographical sketches and links to their works.
- Bridgeman Art Library is a site with over 100,000 images of works in situ, architectural works, paintings and other museum holdings.
- Ditto an indexed imagebase that
retrieves thumbnails of registered images from a host of sources and
ranks them by relevance.
- Google Image Finder
a search engine indexing over 330 million images freely available
on the Web.
- Great Buildings Collection
comprehensive database searchable by building name, place name or
architect with biographical sketches and sources for further reading.
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet: Images an extensive listing of movie, photo
and clip art search engines; display alphabetically or by subject.
- SPIRO
free database of architectural images sponsored by and based on the
holdings of the UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library.
- Visual Arts Data Service provided
by the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and part of the Arts &
Humanities Data Service, this project currently allows searching of
over fifteen digital image project simultaneously and browsing by
major subject area.
- World Art Treasures
browsable and searchable image bank culled from the over 100,000 slides
in the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation.
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