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D I R E C T O R I E S


Art History Courses on the Web
includes courses on contemporary art and theory
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Cours/Subjects.html

Art History Resources on the Web
Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
links organized by historical periods and subjects
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
A Newsletter of Fellowships and other Opportunities for Art History Graduate Students
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~acd




D I C T I O N A R I E S


A Web of On-line Dictionaries
Links to 60 specialized dictionaries and 800 other dictionaries in 150 languages
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

Artlex
Art dictionary
http://www.artlex.com

Words of Art
extensive hyper-texted glossary of terms related to critical art theory
http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fiar/glossary/gloshome.html




I M A G E S


Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
a sampling of images from an extensive image collection available on Kodak Photo-CDs
institutions and individuals may arrange to borrow disks
unfortunately, the 19-20th century section is not active
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html

ArtServe
The Australian National University
80,000 images of art and architecture, but you must pay to see most of them
http://rubens.anu.edu.au

Archives of American Art
Site for the Smithsonian digital archive which also includes the
Catalogue of American Paintings and the Inventory of American Sculpture
(mostly pre-WWI, not strong in contemporary subjects)
http://www.siris.si.edu

Art Imagebase
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Collection (contains 60,000 works on paper)
http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index.html

Digital Imaging Project
Mary Ann Sullivan (Bluffton College) project to put her image collection on line
modern and contemporary section is mostly architecture, some sculpture
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm

Eli Broad Family Foundation
images and short artist biographies of over 20 contemporary painters in the collection
http://www.broadartfdn.org

Image Directory
"a database of information from museums and collections around the world"
Academic Press
http://www.imagedir.com

Image Providers Directory
worldwide links to sources for slides and digital images
Rutgers University/Art History Visual Resources Collection
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~beetham/frambody.htm

Saskia Inc.
source for art slides and electronic images
http://www.saskia.com




M E T H O D O L O G Y


Analysis of Visual Images
course on contemporary theory by Ross Woodrow (University of Newcastle, Australia)
highly recommended resource for contemporary theory and methodology, and a tutorial on writing critical essays
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/fad/fi/woodrow/analysis.htm

Art History: A Preliminary Handbook
how to do art historical research
class notes by Robert J. Belton, Okanagan University College, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fiar/hndbkhom.html

Art History Research Centre
Resources in Art History (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
online (hypertexted) instructions for all aspects of web research, and extensive directories
(highly recommended as an excellent starting place for art history research on the net)
http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC

Art History Resources
Arizona State University Libraries
annotated listing of selected websites and publications in print that are concerned with art history
includes bibliography of reference sources such as books, journals, indexes, style manuals, etc.
(highly recommended for all aspects of art history research)
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/ref/hum/art/arthist.html




R E S E A R C H   T O O L S


The Getty Information Institute
Site for the museum and art-related search tools, including RILA
(International Repertory of the Literature of Art)
http://www.gii.getty.edu/aka

Arthur: The Getty Information Institute Image Search System
http://www.gii.getty.edu/arthur

AAT: Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Getty Information Institute
http://www.gii.getty.edu/vocabulary/aat.html

IRIS: Integrated Research Information System
Online catalog for the collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
http://opac.pub.getty.edu

ULAN: The Union List of Artist Names Browser
Getty Information Institute
http://www.gii.getty.edu/ulan_browser

Iconclass
iconographic classification system
http://iconclass.let.uu.nl

UnCover
searchable database of 17,000 periodicals
copies of some articles can be faxed or emailed to you
http://uncweb.carl.org




L I B R A R I E S  ,   A R C H I V E S   a n d   D A T A   B A N K S


Bibliotheque Publique d'Information
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
http://www.bpi.fr

UCLA Arts Library
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/arts/websites/wwwart.htm

Columbia University Library
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/avery

Cornell University Fine Arts Library
http://www.library.cornell.edu/finearts

Dadabase
Catalog of the Library, Archives and Study Centers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
http://library.moma.org/cgi-bin/Swebrecon?DB=local&PAGE=First

Documenta Archive
Documentation Center of Kassel's Documenta
http://www.uni-kassel.de/bib/documenta/docum2e.htm

Hytelnet on the WorldWideWeb
http://www.lights.com/hytelnet

International Directory of Art Libraries
http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/index.html
http://www.aaln.org/ifla-idal

Internet Public Library
virtual library
http://www.ipl.org

Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
http://www.loc.gov

LibWeb: Library Information Servers via WWW
Directory of library web sites
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb

National Gallery of Art's Collection
http://www.nga.gov/collection/srchexpd.htm

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Library and Research Center
http://www.nmwa.org/library/libindex.htm

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/libraries.html

SIRIS
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
access to the bibliographic databases
http://www.siris.si.edu

S.P.I.R.O.
Architecture slide library, Berkeley University
slides can be viewed only
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Web Cats: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web
http://www.lights.com/webcats

Whitney Museum of American Art Library
http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/library/main.html

Yale University Art and Architecture Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html




J O U R N A L S


Art History
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0141-6790

See also: journals listed in THEORY and LINKS pages




C O P Y R I G H T


Art, Copyright and the Web
bibliography of links for copyright information
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcmills/class/biblio.html

Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu

Copyright and Image Management
Georgia Harper
University of Texas Office of General Counsel
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/image.htm

Intellectual Property in the Information Age: A Classroom Guide to Copyright
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/papers/copyright/ipdummie.html

See also: Art History Research Centre and Art History Resources (in Methodology section above)




P U B L I S H E R S


AAUP Online Catalog
list of university presses on the web
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/AAUP/ALL_CT

Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
http://www.lights.com/publisher




A R T   H I S T O R Y   D E P A R T M E N T S


American Universities
alphabetical list of university websites
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html

Index of Art History Departments' Websites Around the World
Art History Webmasters Association
extensive global listings
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r14310/Departements/usa.html




A U C T I O N    H O U S E S


Art Price International
www.artprice.com

Christie's
http://www.christies.com

Sotheby's
http://www.sothebys.com






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Cheryl K Shurtleff
Boise State University