Art and Art History
Getting Started | Finding Books & eBooks | Database Articles | Magazines/Journals | Images | Time Lines | Video | Websites
Getting Started
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Dictionary of Art by Jane Turner; Book Language: English Publisher: New York : Grove, 1996.
The dictionary is intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the visual arts of every culture and civilization from prehistory to the present. It is also an interdisciplinary source, examining works of art within the social, cultural, historical, religious, and economic contexts in which they were created.The entries all include useful bibliographies, and the vast array of images including artworks and objects, architectural designs and archaeological sites, maps and charts offer a unique visual record.
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Britannica Online Academic Edition (e-Reference) Provides access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Also included is access to research tools, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia. |
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Current Biography Illustrated (e-Reference) This database offers patrons the most reliable and interesting profiles of the people making tomorrow’s headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. |
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History of art (online resource) Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar), 1913-1982., Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Pub date: c2001.
Familiar to art history students throughout the world, this survey of 30,000 years of Western art features time lines densely packed with data, four sections of over 100 primary sources, well-chosen illustrations, and web references. |
Book Finding Books
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Understanding Call Numbers ( Library of Congress Classification System) Call numbers use a combination of letters and numbers to arrange books according to subject. The LC Classification System divides areas of knowledge into 21 main classes, assigning letters to each class. The 21 main classes are further subdivided into specific subject areas, which have also been assigned alpha or numeric codes. Additional codes indicating information about the author and publication year are added to the subject code and you have a call number.
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Using the Library Catalog
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An online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities. |
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EBSCO is now a key provider of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries and other insitutions worldwide. Nearly 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks and growing . . . |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. |
Databases
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This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! |
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JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection JSTOR includes scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. |
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Magazines and Journals
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School Arts (magazine) Library holds this in paper. Published by: Davis Publications, Inc.
ISSN: 0036-6463
A professional journal for teachers interested in or involved in art education, published monthly during the school year (9 issues). Covers visual culture, art history, criticism, aesthetics, and art production, and includes lesson plans and classroom resources for grades K-12. |
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American Art Journal (online resource)
Published by: Kennedy Galleries, Inc.
ISSN: 00027359
The American Art Journal published important articles of new scholarship on American painting, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, architecture, and cultural history. It was founded by Lawrence A. Fleischman in 1969 and published by Kennedy Galleries, Inc, New York, through 2004 |
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Oxford Art Journal (online resource)
Published by: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 01426540
E-ISSN: 17417287
The Oxford Art Journal has an international reputation for publishing innovative critical work in art history, and has played a major role in recent rethinking of the discipline. It is committed to the political analysis of visual art and material representation from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and has carried work addressing themes from Antiquity to contemporary art practice. In addition it carries extended review of major contributions to the field. |
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Images
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The Library of Congress American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. |
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A growing collection of works of art from noteable museums from around the world.
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By Boston University's Ruth Thomas. Outstanding guide helps users find pictures on the Internet and in print. Provides information on finding and capturing images; copyright; search engines; links to image lists and collections of advertisements, arts, photography, sciences. |
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Collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets works of art of the highest quality, to increase knowledge of the visual arts. |
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Time Lines
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The Visual Experience of Art a richly illustrated interactive iBook Textbook guide to Art and Art Appreciation with essential information for anyone studying Art History. |
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Generate a timeline with image gallery, select as many categories as you want and click the "Generate Timelines" button, or simply click on a category name. |
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (online resource) The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. |
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Smarthistory (online resource) Smarthistory focuses on art history, from cave paintings to Warhol. And while the site calls itself a textbook, it's not the text — or even the illustrations — that make it special. It's the growing library of videos that feature spirited, unscripted conversations among historians about notable works. |
Video
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Greek Art View in HD (4 minutes) |
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Greek Theatre View in HD (6 minutes) |
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Art and Architecture - Grand Architecture of Their Ceremonial Ce View in HD (4 minutes) |
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The Pantheon
The Pantheon was a beautiful example of Roman architecture and engineering.
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Roman Walls
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Roman Mosaics and Sculpture Roman Mosaics and Roman Sculptures were used in Roman architecture.
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1766 - John Singleton Copley Paints "Boys with the Squirrel" The American artist, such as John Singleton Copley and Charles W. Peale, captured American life.
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Websites
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Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online. |
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Best of Art History (online resource) Best of Art History Web Site aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit art history teachers and their students; |
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Free, printable educational activities. Children's crafts, coloring pages, worksheets, poems, and games for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school kids. |
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The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality. |
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The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. |
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