Art Resources

Books and Media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Catalog of books and other materials available in the Earlham Libraries, with the option to search catalogs in the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI).

WorldCat
The world's largest library catalog, covering books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries around the globe.

Articles

Art Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts periodicals on art and film, 1984 to present, with abstracts from 1994 to present.

Art Index Retrospective
Indexes older periodicals on art and film found in Art Index, 1929 to 1984.

Academic Search Premier
Comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text. Coverage prior to 1990 is sparse.

JSTOR
Full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s.

Periodicals Archive Online
Full text of 425 journals and magazines covering all topics dating back to the 1800s. Coverage ends at 1995.

LexisNexis Academic
Full-text articles from a variety of major US and international newspapers.

Reference

Daily Life Online
Online version of over four dozen print volumes that explore different cultures and everyday life around the world, past and present, including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.

Oxford Art Online
Contains the 34-volume reference set, The Grove Dictionary of Art, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, and more.

Images

ARTstor
A digital resource of art images. Hundreds of thousands of digital images and the tools to actively use those images.

IDEAS - Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
Includes photographs of people, places, and objects in Asia from the 1900s onwards.

 

Web Sites

All Art

Aesthetics Online
The American Society for Aesthetics site includes the ASA newsletter, articles and reviews, and links to a variety of resources on aesthetics.

Artcyclopedia
Provides a very useful index of art images from museum sites on the web.

Art History Resources on the Web
An useful guide to art history on the web. Includes links to museums and galleries.

Ceramics Today
Articles, image gallery, and links to resources on ceramics.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Includes an "Imagebase" of 70,000 images.

The Metropolitian Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History
Presents a basic geographical and chronological context for the history of art around the globe.

National Gallery of Art
"[H]ouses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present."

National Museum of American Art
Offers digital reproductions of works, introductory information, video clips, and text pertaining to American art. Sponsored by the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
More than thirteen million items, consisting of the papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators and the records of art dealers, museums, and other art-related businesses, institutions, and organizations. Does NOT contain images of art.

Tate Gallery Online
The "home of the national collection of British art from the 16th century to the present day."

The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery
One of the most comprehensive van Gogh resources available on the web. The "Gallery" provides information on more than 900 van Gogh paintings with links to graphics for nearly 750. Also includes a chronology of van Gogh's life and other factual data. Maintained by David Brooks.

Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
Sites in art and art history. Includes links to the Voice of the Shuttle's archaeology, architecture, and photography pages.

World Wide Arts Resources
Covers all aspects of the arts: artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, art for sale, art schools, art agencies, art history, film, theatre, dance, antiques, and arts events.

African Art

The Arts of Africa
Links provided by Dr. C.L.C.E. Whitcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College.

Africa - Art
Links gathered by the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association

National Museum of African Arts. Smithsonian Institution
Links to online exhibitions, African arts galleries, organizations, and special topics, as well as links to the resources of the Smithsonian Institution.

Online Exhibits

African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
A display of pieces from the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia. The pieces exemplify African aesthetics and the underlying moral principles of the aesthetics.

Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire.Yoruba and Akan Art in Wood and Metal
An exhibition from the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences. It focuses on Yoruba wood carving and Akan goldwork.

The Detroit Institute of Arts
The "African, Oceanic, and New World Cultures" collections offer five separate areas.

Mathers Museum. African Collections
Links leading to samples from several collections of sub-Saharan African art in the Indiana University Mathers Museum.

Guggenheim Museum. Africa - The Art of a Continent
An exhibition of African arts organized by a clickable map of the continent.

G. I. Jones - Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
Photographs of Nigerian people, culture, and art taken by G.I. Jones of the University of Cambridge in the 1930s.

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanian Kente and African-American Identity
"[E]xplores the history of traditional Ghanaian weaving and its impact on cultures beyond Africa's shores." An exhibit from the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and The Newark Museum, currently on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art and the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture.

Literature and Lessons

The World of Tribal Arts. The Online Journal of Art, Culture, and History of Traditional People
Articles and lists of galleries, peoples, and events related to the arts of traditional peoples worldwide.

Art and Life in Africa Online
An educational tool for learning about art in the context of African life. Includes essays, maps, databases of peoples with the types of arts of each, and a searchable index to photographs of items in the Stanley Collection of African Art at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Architecture

A Digital Archive of American Architecture
Over 1000 images of American architecture with study guides and walking tours. Maintained by Professor Jeffery Howe of Boston College.