LibGuides: Arts and Creative Enterprises: General Art & Design

Online reference Materials: Art & Design

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Oxford Art Online (formally Grove Art Online)

Artstor

Art Source

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artist
This essential resource’s 945 alphabetically-arranged entries offer an insightful and informative view of America’s artistic heritage.

The Oxford Dictionary of Art by Ian Chilvers (Editor)
Provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present.

A Dictionary of Modern Design
Covers the past 150 years of international design, with accessible and succinct entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion.
A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
Contains around 2,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Its impressive range of terms includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
A wide range of technical information as well as recent scholarship on photography as a social and artistic practice.

The Oxford Companion to Western Art
Call Number: N33.O923 2001 - also available Online
Abu Dhabi Reference
Dubai Reference

University of Colorado Boulder list of select online muesum collections
These museums have been selected for the quality and scope of their online collections. - from the list's home page

Louvre - Department of Islamic Art
The new galleries of the Department of Islamic Art opened to the public on September 22, 2012. Some 3,000 objects are on display, spanning 1,300 years of history and three continents, from Spain to Southeast Asia.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 36.000 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided. - From the Web Gallery of Art home page
Smithsonian Freer and Salcker Galleries (Asian Art)
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain some of the most important holdings of Asian art in the world. In addition, the Freer Gallery boasts exemplary examples of late nineteenth-century works by James McNeill Whistler and his American contemporaries. The Sackler Gallery is host to contemporary art from Asia as well as international loan exhibitions. Together, both Galleries form the national museums of Asian art at the Smithsonian and are dedicated to the acquisition, care, study, and exhibition of works in their collections. - From the Freer and Sackler Galleries Collections page