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Art and Art History
Librarian-curated research guide for Art and Art History resources
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Most of the resources listed here are available only to Calvin users, but if you're looking for open access images (free or public domain), check out the suggestions in one of these comprehensive guides created by other librarians:
ARTstor is an image collection which documents artistic traditions across all times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.
This rich resource features over 45,000 signed articles, 5,500 images, 40,000 image links, timelines of world art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) lesson plans, and links to ARTstor. Once you've searched for a topic, limit your results under "Format" to find actual images
Includes examples of key artists' works (from slides). Each image is thoroughly described and can be loaded in medium or high resolution. Instructional aids are organized into folders: architecture, ceramics, fiber, and maps.
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Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture.
