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Art & Visual Culture

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This subject guide is a good starting place for researching general topics in Art & Visual Culture; however, you might also look at Architecture or Film.

Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Image and Reference Resources

  Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
ABOUT     ARTstor Image database. Includes material from the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection.
  Art Abstracts (Wilson) 1984-
ABOUT    
  Art Index Retrospective, 1929-1984
ABOUT     Grove Art Online Searchable version of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Features: "ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links."

Sources for Reviews

   
  New York Times Online 1851-2003 ABOUT    
  LexisNexis ABOUT    
  Proquest Newspapers     Bates College Museum of Art
  Academic Search Premier ABOUT     Exhibitions
Special Collections       Events and Lectures
  Marsden Hartley Collection        

Multi-Database Search : Art & Visual Culture

Web Resources

AVC 288 "Visualizing Race" research guide

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
"Personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large."

Getty Vocabularies
Includes the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), and Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). From the Getty Research Institute.

Timeline of Art History
Created by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes searching both by period and by geographic area.

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Museums & Galleries

The Getty

Guggenheim.org (includes all of the Geggenheim museums worldwide)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

National Gallery of Art

Art & Visual Culture Reference Works

Dictionary of Art published by Groves
Reference N31 .D5 1996 v.1-34
Online version

Modern Arts Criticism
Reference N40 .m63 v.1-4

Dictionary of Women Artists
Reference N43 .D53 1997 v.1-2

International Directory of Arts
Reference N50 .I6 2005 v.1-3

World Painting Index
ND45 .H38 v.1-2 ; suppl. 1-3

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Christopher P. Schiff
Music and Arts Librarian
207-786-6274
e-mail: cschiff AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
48 Campus Avenue • Lewiston, Maine 04240
(207) 786-6263


Page author: Christopher P. Schiff
Date: 4/12/06


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