Fine, decorative and commercial art, photography, film, architecture, urban design and planning information.
Current publications in the fields of visual and applied art, ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (design and crafts) and the International Bibliography of Art (scholarship on Western art history).
New Zealand art-related articles, art material published in New Zealand newspapers and New Zealand content in international art journals.
Core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences.
Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) 1975-1989
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) 1990-2007
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
High resolution digital images from many time periods and cultures.
Images from international collections including the British Library, Getty Images, Natural History Museum and the National Geographic Society.
New Zealand content from government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups.
Manuscript collection of the Wordsworth Trust, along with fine art pieces from the Trust’s art collection.
Oxford's art reference works, including Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject specific titles.
Multidisciplinary reference sources.
The Arts Essay Skills Hub guides you through the process of completing an Arts essay assignment; from understanding your topic, finding good information, to writing and referencing.
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