Art & Design Databases || Art & Design Books || Online Art & Design Journals || Online Art & Design Books (Selected) || Websites ||
| AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today’s global customer through superior image quality, selection and service. | |
An online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Works from major European, American, and Canadian artists in the collections of member museums are included. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. The database includes numerous multimedia files. Art Museum Image Gallery documents over 90,000 works of art. |
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| Provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference resource. |
Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. |
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| Offers current articles in nearly every academic discipline, as well as current affairs and general interest topics. Subject areas include: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | |
| Contains the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Business Full Text, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, and Social Sciences Full Text. | |
| Provides access to thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. | |
| Worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind. |
To locate books and other resources relevant to the subject of art and design, please use the library's online catalog to conduct searches by keyword, title, or author. Additionally, you may conduct a search set to a "subject browse" and use the following subject headings as search terms:
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Also try browsing through the collection on the first floor of the library to find reference works. The following reference books will get you started. Focus on the entire 'N' section for titles in the more comprehensive art subject area in general, also more specifically around the "Z246" area for graphic design (typography) and the "TR" area for photography.
PLEASE NOTE that art and design materials are wide ranging and are spread out into several collections within the Library. After locating items of interest in the online catalog, take special note of the Location for the items. They could be in any one of the following locations, or even another location.. Help in finding any of these locations can be provided by anyone on the Library staff.
Quarto/Oversize Collection - 2nd floor
LC Circulating Collection - 2nd floor
Reference Collection - 1st floor
Audio-Visual Collection - 1st floor
Other locations - check with a member of the Library staff
General
The Dictionary of Art: REF N31.D5 1996
The Oxford Companion to Western Art: REF N33 .O923 2001
Guide to the Literature of Art History 2: REF N380 .M374 2005
Contemporary Artists: REF N6490 .C662 2002
Artist’s & Graphic Designer’s Market: REF N8600 .A746 2006-2007
The Sculpture Reference Illustrated: REF NB1170 .W55 2005
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers: REF NC997 .L58 2003
The Design Encyclopedia: REF NK1370 .B93 2004
Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines: REF NC1001.6 .G726 2001
Encyclopedia of Creativity: REF BF408.E53 1999
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: REF TR9 .F6 2007
The Photography Encyclopedia: REF TR9 .M39 1999
The Photographer’s Market: REF TR12 .P515 .
Online art & design journals (particularly review journals for "visual arts-general")
Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda
Bloomsbury Guide to Art
Bridgeman Art Library Archive
Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Design and Designers
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism
American Institute of Graphic Art (AIGA)
American Museum of Photography
Art History Resources on the Web
Art Institute of Chicago
Artcyclopedia
Artlex Art Dictionary
Art Renewal Center
British Museum
Egyptian Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Louvre Museum: Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Collections
Mother of All Art and Art History Links
Musarium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Gallery of Art: The Collection
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery
PhotoServe Portfolios
Pitti Palace, Florence
Prado Museum
Salvador Dali Museum
Timeline of Art History
Web Gallery of Art