LIBRARY GUIDE TO Art

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. 
• Google Art Project
• Guide to Finding Images on the web

Museum websites are also excellent resources for high-quality images of art. 

Citing Images.pdf A guide prepared by EasyBib on citing images.

The general call number ranges for the arts include N through NX, and TR for photography.  The book collection includes such things as critical writings, artist biographies, artist monographs, technical guides, and reference materials.

Oxford Art Online is an online reference collection specific to the arts.  If you need artist biographies, art term definitions, or critical theory definitions, use this resource.

To locate journal articles, the following databases are recommended:


Art Bibliographies Modern
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Berg Fashion Library
JSTOR
Historical Abstracts
Humanities Source
Project MUSE
BHA and RILA - Index of European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.  This is not an OU resource, and will not have the Get It! link avaialble for you; so if you need assistance with this resource please contact the art librarian.

Library OneSearch
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages
Career Alternatives for Art Historians
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Italian Renaissance Resources
SIRIS/Archives of American Art (Smithsonian)
Gothic Ivories Project
Provenance Research Guide (UNC Chapel Hill Libraries)

Art Writers Grant Program
Artist Network
TheArtList.com
Aaron Siskind Foundation Grants
Black Rock Arts Foundation
Fulbright Program for U.S. Students
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
National Endowment for the Arts
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
Puffin Foundation
Virginia Groot Foundation

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