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AFRICA:
The Art of a Continent
http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa
A production of the Guggenheim Museum celebrating the extraordinary contribution
of the African continent to the world's visual culture. This exhibition includes
works ranging from the tools and rock art of early humankind to objects produced
well into the twentieth century. While the primary emphasis in the selection
has been aesthetic, the installation presents the works of art in a geographical
and historical context and offers descriptions of their cultural uses and symbolic
meanings insofar as these are known to scholars.
Art Institute
of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html
Online exhibits, educational resources, and images from the museum. Among its
treasures are the masterpieces 'A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte' (1884)
by Georges Seurat, 'American Gothic' by Grant Wood, 'Nighthawks' by Edward Hopper,
and paintings by Claude Monet.
Artcyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com
Guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, a comprehensive index of every
artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online
resources. Included also are other artistic media where possible such as photography,
decorative arts, installation art, video, digital and web-based art, naïve art/outsider
art, architecture.
Hermitage
Museum Project
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/00/hm0_8.html
The goal here is to transform how people around the world experience the Hermitage
Museum and its collections. From Paleolithic to contemporary, you can study
some of the most extraordinary works of art in the world, including details
about each piece represented and the history of the civilization that created
them.
Great Buildings
Collection
http://www.greatbuildings.com
Great Buildings Online. This gateway to architecture around the world and across
history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with
3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies,
web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Greeks:
Crucible of Civilization
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks
Online companion to the PBS series. Provides animation, commentary, timeline,
and educational resources on the ancient Greeks and how their civilization shapes
ours today.
Mesoweb
http://www.mesoweb.com/welcome.html
An exploration of Mesoamerican cultures. This site is maintained as a public
service by Merle Greene Robertson, Jorge Pérez de Lara and Joel Skidmore of
Fleet Gazelle. Onlne exhibits, images, articles and comentary.
Masters of
Photography
http://masters-of-photography.com
Examples of the great photographers' work as well as articles and texts for
each photographer describing his\her life, historical importance and contributions
to the artform.
Metropolitan Museum
of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org
Online exhibits, educational resources,and images of the museum's collections
that cover art from every period from around the world across 5,000 years of
human activity. Includes a Timeline
of Art History through 1800 A.D.
Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org
The from the foremost museum dedicated to Modern Art in all its forms, this
site provides images and describes representative examples from its collections
with commentary. Also this site offers online exhibitions and educational resources.
The National Museum of Women
in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org
Recognizes the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities
by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating
the public concerning their accomplishments.
The Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Collaborators
formed the project to construct a collection of materials, textual and visual,
on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. It was established 1987.
Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore
Companion to the award-winning PBS series Nova, this site provides insight,
images, and commentary on the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
Roman
Art and Architecture
http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/roman.html
Maintained by Kathryn Andrus-Walck, Dept. Visual and Performing Arts, University
of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This page offers images and information by periods
in Roman history on architecture, art and sculpture.
Web Gallery
of Art
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index1.html
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture
of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing
over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available.
Women Artists in History
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus use.
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
Academic Search
Elite
Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including
business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education
and multi-cultural. This comprehensive database features full text for over
1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over
3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times (limited to indexing) and The Christian Science Monitor.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology,
this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines for anyone
needing fulltext and indexed peer-reviewed articles. Access scholarly journals,
magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!
General
Reference Center Gold
Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers,
and reference books for information on business, industry, current events, the
arts, science, entertainment, etc.
JSTOR:
Journal Storage Project
A full-text database of more than 100 journals in the fields of African-American
studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance,
history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography,
sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and
usually continues through the early 1990s. Eight journals have 100 or more years
of coverage; 35 journals have 50 or more years of coverage. Graphs, photographs,
and other images are included.
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in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
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For a complete listing of materials on the history of Arts, please consult
the MATC Library Online Catalog.
Click on a title to see if it is available
in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
American visions: the epic history of art in America.
709.73 H894
By Robert Hughes.
Contemporary women artists.
709.22 B39
By Wendy Beckett.
Encyclopedia of world art.
REF 703 EN5
Graphic design: a concise history.
741.609 H743
By Richard Hollis.
History of art.
709 J35
By H.W. Janson.
History of modern art: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography.
709.04 AR743 1998
By H.H. Arnason.
Impressionism.
759.4 P82
By Phoebe Pool.
Latin American art: ancient to modern.
RESERVE 709.8 SC427
By John F. Scott.
On the art of fixing a shadow: 150 years of photography.
779.07473 ON58
By Sarah Greenough et al.
The Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture.
REF 704.9482 M98
By Peter and Linda Murray.
The Oxford dictionary of art.
REF 703.21 OX98 1997
Edited by Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne et al.
St. James guide to Black artists.
REF 709.2396 ST774
Preface by Howard Dodson ; editor, Thomas Riggs.
A short history of African art.
709.011096 G48
By Werner Gillon
Women artists: an illustrated history.
704.042 H47
By Nancy G. Heller.
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