Art and Architecture resources available @ your library
Thursday, February 28th, 2008On-line resources for art and architecture include collections of images, indexes to research articles (some to full text articles), and on-line reference dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Image resources:
Art and Architecture images from the following sources:
- The ART Collection from AMICO: images from museums and other art collections around the world.
- The Saskia– a collection of digital art images with a special emphasis on the core images required for teaching the history of Western Art.
- Images from the Akron Art Museum
- Art and architecture from the University of Cincinnati
- WPA prints by Cleveland artists, from the Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University Library.
- Provides high-quality, digital images of works of art from museums around the world.
- Focuses on the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covers the complete range of expressive forms.
- Genres included: painting, sculpture, photography, print, drawing, ceramic, textiles, metalwork, furniture, books and scrolls, architecture, and archeological finds.
- 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.
- Images of great buildings from around the world.
- Searchable by place, name of architec, or type of architecture.
- Includes:
- Photographs,
- Information on architects,
- Architectural drawings,
- Discussion,
- Bibliography,
- Architect information,
- Live 3D walkthrough computer models.
Journal articles:
- Indexes over 400 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.
- Entries in the database also cite any art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists’ names and covers titles published in European languages, as well as English-language sources.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation.
- Offers access to 2,500 international journals, most of which are not indexed elsewhere, and nearly 600,000 citations dating to the mid-18th century.
- Indexes the international scholarly and popular periodical literature as well as the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
On-line reference books:
Art and Architecture (Oxford Reference On-line)
- Full text access to some of the essential reference works in Art and Architecture, published by the Oxford University Press.
- Titles include:
- A Dictionary of Architecture
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- The Oxford Dictionary of Art
- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
- Contains over 1000 entries, featuring “an abundance of in-depth articles on this field of enduring importance–from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture.”