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ART RESOURCES on the WEB
[Starting Points in the Arts] [Finding
Images in the Arts and Other Areas]
[Libraries] [Electronic
Art Reference Sources]
[Photography] [Of
Special Interest to the Boston College Community] [Museums]
[Specific Artists] [Art
E-Journals]
[Professional Associations and Government
Agencies]
[Art Programs] [Art
History Timelines] [Costumes]
STARTING POINTS IN THE ARTS
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ArtSource.
Many well-organized links to bibliographies, architecture sites, art programs,
art libraries, gopher sites, e-journals, e-exhibits, museums and organizations.
http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/artsourcehome.html
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Art History Research Center.
Many resources useful for art historical research, including links to search
engines, newsgroups, mailing lists, library catalogues, article indexes
and collections. http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC
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ArtMag. Links to world museums,
galleries and events. http://www.artmag.com/am.html
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Arts Wire.
Links to sources of news and information affecting the arts and artists
today. Links to sites for individual artists, and many links to arts organizations.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/awfront.html
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Artsnet. (Carnegie Mellon University,
Master of Arts Management Program) Arts Management resources and
websites. http://www.artsnet.org/
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ArtIndex. Not to be confused
with its near-namesake. Links to a variety of art sites, including museums,
individual artists, and pages of other links. http://www.wildhack.com/ArtIndex
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EINet
Galaxy. Links to art history sites, and a search engine for the Galaxy
site. http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Humanities/Arts/Art-History.html
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FineArt
Forum Resource Directory . Links to many sites, including conferences,
museums, galleries, individual artists, electronic art and mailing lists.
http://www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Online/art-resources/
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Mother of All Art
History Links. http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
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Voice of the Shuttle: Art
and Art History Page. http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/art.html
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World Arts Searchable Sites. A searchable
index of art-related URLs. http://wwar.com/
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WWW Virtual Library - Art History:
links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History.http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/
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Yahoo - Arts and Humanities Searches
the web for arts-related sites. Can be narrowed down to art history and
architecture searches. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/
ELECTRONIC ART REFERENCE SOURCES
FINDING IMAGES IN THE ARTS AND OTHER AREAS
Image and Multimedia Search Engines
Art Images
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AMICO
(Art Museum Image Consortium) -- an online collection of 50,000 high
quality digital images of works of art in American Museums.
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Art History - Prehistoric
to 20th Century : vast number of links to art history resources on
the web. This is part of the home page for the Fine Arts department at
Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Part One organized by period, Prehistoric
to 20th Century. Part Two includes links to sites for museums, libraries,
visual resources, research guides and online periodical searches. http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
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Art Images for College Teaching
--
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
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Artcyclopedia -- Search
over 6000 artists to find their works in museum collections or browse by
movement, medium, subject, or nationality. http://artcyclopedia.com/index.html
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Carol Gerten's Fine Art
(searchable by artist, nationality or time period) -- http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/fineart.htm
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College Teaching -- Images
arranged by art historical period and keyed to major art historical textbooks,
i.e. Janson, Gardner, Hartt. http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
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Digital
Archive of Art -- Online images from Boston College -- http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/default.html
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Image
Collections and Online Art (University of Michigan) -- http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/images.html
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Manuscript
Images and Projects in Digitized Images of Manuscripts -- (Labyrinth
site from Georgetown) -- http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/mss/mss.html
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Mark Harden's Artchive --
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
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Mythology
in Western Art: search by the name of the mythological figure. See
numerous images of each character (b&w) from various periods in Western
art. http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/MYTHOLOGY_WESTART.HTML
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OCAIW Orazio Centaro's Art
Images on the Web -- Includes architecture, painting,photograohy and
sculpture -- http://www.ocaiw.com/indexing.htm
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Pictures of Record
(slides and licensed web sites for teaching ) -- http://www.picturesofrecord-wired.com
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Project Perseus -- Over 30,000
clasical art and archaeology images. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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Saskia Art Slides -- http://www.saskia.com
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S*P*I*R*O
Query Submission Form: part of the Art History Information Program
at the Getty. This searchable database is useful if you keep your searches
very broad and simple. You can search by period, subject (i.e. medium),
location or building (these give architectural information on the city
or building). http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html
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Web Gallery of Art --
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index1.html
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WorldArt Database
at San Jose State University http://worldart.sjsu.edu/KIOSK/MainMenu.htm
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World Art Treasures: images
and text on five subjects: Renaissance gardens (French text only); Botticelli;
Roman portraits from Egypt; Abydos in Egypt; Asian art, including South-East
Asia and India.
Photographs (Commercial)
Photographs (Historic & Artistic)
Clip Art
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ClipArt.com -- http://www.clipart.com
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Clip Art Connection Lots
of animated buttons, bars, etc -- http://www.clipartconnection.com/
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Clip Art Searcher Optimized
search forms for graphics found at Anzwers, Hotbot, Lycos, Filez, Yahoo
and Euroseek 1-Click -- http://www.webplaces.com/search/
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Clip Art Review
A guide to free graphics on the Web -- http://www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm
Religious Images
Images from Science, Technology, and Other Images
Getting Rights to Images
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Art Resource (Clearing house for the
rights of major European an American museums, archives and collections)
-- http://www.artres.com/
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Artist Rights Society (Clearing house
for the rights of the majority of the artists active in the 20th century)
-- http://www.arsny.com/
Other Finding Image Sites
LIBRARIES
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Boston Public Library Fine
Arts Department -- http://www.bpl.org/WWW/finearts.html
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Boston Public
Library Research Collection -- http://www.bpl.org/WWW/telref/ResearchLib1.html
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Getty Research Center
Library http://www.getty.edu/research/library/
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Museum of Fine Arts Library, School for the Museum
of Fine Arts Library, and Mass College of Art Library -- http://flo.org/
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New York Public Library: provides access
to the catalogs of the New York Public Library. Also includes a history
of the library; listings of NYPL publications; exhibition, program and
performance scedules; a multi-media center featuring photograps, images
of sculpture, and a link to the NYPL Center for the Humanities. The latter
gives information about the NYPL. http://www.nypl.org/
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Smithsonian Institution -- SIRIS
is the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. It contains
information about books, serials, archives and manuscripts, films, sound
recordings, paintings, sculpture, and more. It is divided into 4 research
catalogs. Art resources in each are: Library Catalog of the Amerian Art
and Portrait Gallery library; Inventories of American painting before 1914
and of American sculpture; the Archives
of American Art and the Museum Studies database.http://www.siris.si.edu
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Yale University Art &
Architecture Library: provides link to ORBIS, Yale. http://www.library.yale.edu/art/aa.html
PHOTOGRAPHY
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AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive, is an electronic library containing more than 700,000
photographs from the Associated Press' current year's photo reports and
a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library
(Restricted to the BC Community).
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California Museum
of Photography: from University of California at Riverside. Inlcudes
links to CMP exhibitions, museum collections (including special collections),
media education, and new work by contemporary photographers. http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/netex_intro.html
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Center
for Creative Photography: at the University of Arizona. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/ccphome.html
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George Eastman House: International
Museum of Photography: the home page of an important photography museum.
Includes news/events, exhibits, house and gardens (the building proper),
films and lectures, library and research. http://www.it.rit.edu:80/~gehouse/
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American Museum of Photography:
This virtual museum features online exhibits covering the first 75 years
of the photographic process, from 1839 until WWI. http://www.photographymuseum.com/
OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE BOSTON COLLEGE
COMMUNITY
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Christus Rex: an outstanding
resource from the Vatican. Includes hundreds of images from the Vatican
Museums, the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, and the Raphael Stanze and Loggia.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/icons/
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Labyrinth
Medieval Art and Architecture Resources: a wealth of images and information
on many aspects of medieval art (especially strong in manuscript illumination).
Follow up the various links for many excellent resources. Connect to the
Labyrinth home page for information on other asepcts of medieval history
and culture. http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/arts/arthist.html
MUSEUMS
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts(MFA) links
to the collection of the largest museum in New England.
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Centre National de Pompidou: this
is the home page of the Pompidou Center in Paris. Choose the English version
when you begin. Includes information on a new publication planned by the
Pompidou on technology and the arts. Also includes calendar, exhibition
news, and links to other art sites on the web. http://www.cnac-gp.fr/
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Library of Congress
Exhibitions: links to pages featuring all the major exhibits now on
view at the Library of Congress. These of course change from time to time,
though all are fascinating. High-quality images. http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/exhibits.html
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Metropolitan Museum, New York:
the home page of one of the finest and most accessible art collections
for east-coast residents. Explore the museum. http://www.f.org/
home.asp
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National Museum
of American Art: can search databases of NMAA http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/index.html
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Salvador Dali Museum: includes a
biography of the artist and images from the collection, as well as a surrealistic
Dali Quiz. http://www.daliweb.com/
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Smithsonian Institution Home Page:
provides links to all the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C. Also
describes research facilties available through the Smithsonian. http://www.si.edu/start.htm
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Washingtonian Online -
Art & Museums: links to the home pages of several national museums
in Washington State. Includes the Freer Gallery (Asian art), the National
Archives, the Library of Congress, the National Museum of American Art,
and the Sackler Gallery (Asian and Near Eastern art). http://www.ohwy.com/wa/a/artmuseu.htm
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Web Museum - Paris: a rich
source of information from the Louvre. Sections on famous paintings at
the Louvre - and on 20th-century art, Cezanne, and medieval manuscript
illumination. Offers a web tour of Paris. Also includes links to Web Museum
pages on a large number of individual artists http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/
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Whitney Museum of American
Art: sections on programs and information, exhibitions, permanent collections,
library, artists. http://www.whitney.org/index.html
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WWW Virtual Library Museums Pages
A
comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources
http://vlmp.museophile.com/
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World Wide Arts Resources - Museums: another
outstanding museums page with links to a large number of museum home pages.
Arranged alphabetically by country. http://wwar.com/
SPECIFIC ARTISTS
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Artcyclopedia -- Search
over 6000 artists to find their works in museum collections or browse by
movement, medium, subject, or nationality. http://artcyclopedia.com/index.html
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Artists Index: List of many,
many artists both historical and contemporary. The index is grouped by
medium and by movement (i.e Impressionism) http://wwar.com/artists1.html
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Rossetti
Archive: contains the complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti. Includes a searchable index of the archive of Rossetti. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html
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Web Museum Artist Index:
an excellent resource. Links to Web Museum home pages on many individual
artists. http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/
ART E-JOURNALS
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ACA Update: newsletter for the American
Council for the Arts. Includes information on arts funding from both state
and federal governments, grants, the N.E.A. etc. http://www.artsusa.org
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Apogee Photo Magazine: includes
articles on both technical and artistic aspects of photography, contests,
discussion forums, Q&A, etc. http://www.apogeephoto.com
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Architecture Australia: official
electronic journal of the Royal Austrailian Institute of Architects. Includes
archive. http://www.archmedia.com.au
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Art and Archaeology: bilingual
French/English journal with reviews and listings of European events in
the fields of art, art history and archaeology. http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/
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Arts JOURNAL: The Daily Digest of
Arts & Cultural Journalism -- http://www.artsjournal.com/
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Art Now Gallery Guide: international
listings of exhibits, fairs, festivals and other special events. Searchable.
http://www.galleryguide.org/
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Artnoir Showcase: covers the art
of African America, the Carribean, Latin America and Polynesia. Listings
of individual artists, exhibitions, museums, libraries, pulicatons and
services. http://www.artnoir.com/
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ArtPage: reviews,
complete Manhattan gallery guide, featured artists, etc. http://www.walrus.com/~artforum/cover.html
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Callaloo:
a journal of African-American and African arts and letters. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/index.html
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Communication Arts: online
version of the print journal showcasing the best in graphic design, commercial
photography and illustration. http://www.commarts.com/index.html
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CyberStage Online: explores all
aspects of computer generated art. Includes essays and exhibits. http://www.cyberstage.org/
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Internet ArtResources: reviews,
essays, exhibits, collections, etc. http://www.artresources.com/
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Leonardo:
a journal documenting the use of science and technology in the arts. Published
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo/home.html
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New England Arts: a guide to New England
galleries, art centers, museums and independant artists. http://www.nearts.com
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Passage des Arts: English/French
journal of contemporary art and design. http://www.artpass.pair.com
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Postmodern
Culture: a journal of interdisciplinary criticism. Includes a searchable
index of archived volumes.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html
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Religion and the Arts:
a new journal from Boston College exploring the religious dimensions of
the verbal, visual and performing arts.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/relarts/
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Web Architecture Magazine: bilingual
English/Spanish architecture journal with excellent graphics and illustrations.
http:web.arch-mag.com
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES
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American Council for the Arts: sections
on arts advocacy; arts education; books and tools to manage, fund raise,
and promote the arts; artists hotline (grants); ArtsUSA Cafe (discussion
area); art policy and economic impact studies. http://www.artsusa.org/
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ARL Web Server: a service from
the Association of Research Libraries. Information and resources on a variety
of topics. http://arl.cni.org/index.html
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ARLIS/NA: the home page
of the Art Libraries Society of North America. News, profiles of discussion
groups, calendar, awards, link to ARLIS-L discussion list, etc.
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Art DEADLINES list: listings of
competitions, contests, calls for entries/papers, grants, scholarships,
fellowships, jobs, internships, etc. in the arts. International scope.
http://www.xensei.com/adl/
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Art Dealers Association of America
a
non-profit membership organization of
the nation's leading dealers in the fine arts http://www.artdealers.org/
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Foundation Center: an independent,
nonprofit clearinghouse dedicated to disseminating information on grant
funding and corporate giving. Includes tutorials on proposal writing and
lists of top grant providers. http://fdncenter.org/
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National Assembly of State Arts Agencies:
Information on Arts Policy Development, Research/Information Services,
Communication and Development, Advocacy, Governance/Administration. http://www.nasaa-arts.org/
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National Endowment for the Arts --
http://arts.endow.gov/
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Visual Resources Association:
established to encourage research and education in visual resources. Information
on a variety of topics, including VRA publications, the VRA listserv, and
a section on copyright issues. Includes a Gallery of selected contemporary
works. http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html
ART PROGRAMS
Petersons:
the
online guide to graduate and professional study in Arts and Architecture.
http://www.petersons.com/graduate/select/arts.html
ART HISTORY TIMELINES
COSTUME WEB SITES
Costume Imagebase:
Index to selected images from Columbia College Library http://www.lib.colum.edu/costwais.html
Costuming Resources
Online http://users.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
Garren
Collection of Historic Dress at the University of Virginia Department
of Drama
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~kmr3c/docs/costumes.html
Period
and Styles of Costume http://ps.theatre.tulane.edu/Period.Styles/Costumes/text/Cost.Per_Styles.html
Timeline
of Costume History http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm
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