Core Databases |
Art Full Text
Art Full Text is a full-text version of Art Abstracts containing full-text articles from more that 100 periodicals from 1997. |
Art History Image Database
Images from the slide collection of the Art History Department. |
ARTbibliographies Modern
Indexes & abstracts for periodicals, exhibition catalogues, theses and books on 20th Century art. |
ARTstor
A searchable online database containing over 500,000 images intended to serve art historians and related social sciences. Covers art from prehistory to the modern era. |
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Bibliographic database on the history of post classical Western art. |
Google Scholar
Search engine for scholarly literature. |
INZART: Index to New Zealand Art
INZART indexes from New Zealand art related serials held in the University of Auckland Fine Arts Library, art related material published in New Zealand newspapers, and New Zealand content in international art journals. |
JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
A fulltext archive of scholarly journal literature, including Art and Art History journals. JSTOR pages are also indexed by Google Scholar. |
Oxford Art Online
A searchable online database from Oxford University Press comprising Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
Theses & Dissertations
Allows you to search for University of Auckland theses as well as providing links to international theses & dissertations collections and information on how to write theses. |
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New Zealand & Australian Databases |
INZART: Index to New Zealand Art
INZART indexes from New Zealand art related serials held in the University of Auckland Fine Arts Library, art related material published in New Zealand newspapers, and New Zealand content in international art journals. |
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AustArt
Index to Australian art journals. |
Australian Art Sales Digest
A searchable online database of auction records for artists who have lived or worked in Australia and New Zealand. It currently lists over 300,000 works offered for sale in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1970s. |
The Community Archive - National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM)
Holdings of nearly 200 libraries, museums and other institutions around New Zealand (including the University of Auckland Library, Auckland City Libraries, Auckland War Memorial Museum, National Archives of New Zealand and the Methodist Church of New Zealand. |
Dictionary of Australian Artists Online
Over 7000 biographies including data on Colonial artists;
women artists to 1950; and
Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and the Sydney region. Regularly updated. |
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ELAM Archive
Provides access to the Elam School of Fine Arts Archive from 1880 to
the present. Archive content includes artworks, photographs, office
documents, minutes, posters, prospectus, correspondence and ephemera.
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New Zealand
Index
A composite of five separate indexes of New Zealand newspapers, magazines and journals including Index New Zealand. |
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Other Art Databases |
Design and Applied Arts Index
An international index to design and craft journals. |
EBSCOhost
A set of 19 databases from Ebsco Publishing - mostly full-text periodical collections, with an emphasis on peer-reviewed journals. Major components are Academic Search Premier, with 3956 full-text journals, and Business Source Premier, with 3317 full-text journals. |
Expanded Academic
Multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines and newspapers. |
Getty Provenance Index Databases
Information regarding the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art. |
Master Drawings
Scholarship of drawings from the Renaissance to 20th Century, index to contents. Fine Arts Library holds complete texts in print. |
Oxford Art Online
A searchable online database from Oxford University Press comprising
Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western art, Encyclopedia of
Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. |
Project Muse
Database of current international full-text serials in humanities and social sciences. |
Proquest 5000 (PDQ)
Multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines and newspapers. |
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Image Resources |
ARTstor
A searchable online database containing over 500,000 images intended to serve art historians and related social sciences. Covers art from prehistory to the modern era. |
Art History Image Database
Images from the slide collection of the Art History Department. |
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Artchive
Contains an archive of art images of prominent 20th Century artists, as well as links to other image websites and museum resources. |
Artcyclopedia
Contains a comprehensive index of artists represented in hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. |
Bridgeman
A leading source of fine art, cultural and historical images. Founded in 1972, the Bridgeman Art Library works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for reproduction.. |
Electronic Swatchbook
Swatches or small samples of fabric have been collected and compiled in the form of swatchbooks for at least 300 years. The Powerhouse Museum has several volumes containing thousands of bright, unfaded samples of fashionable fabric designs, braids and laces ranging from the 1830s to the 1920s.The patterns on this site are in the public domain in Australia. |
Finding Images on the Web
Published by Boston University Libraries this site lists image archives, collections and search engines. Instructions for downloading and inserting images is provided. |
Google Image
Image specific database within the Google search engine. |
Matapihi
Access to 50 000 pictures, sounds and objects from Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland City Libraries, Christchurch City Libraries and Otago Museum. |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Images from the collections of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Te Papa Picture Library
P O Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand
Contact Person: Becky Masters, Manager Picture Library
DDI: (04) 381 7128
Email contact: BeckyM@tepapa.govt.nz
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National Library of Australia Picture Collection
The emphasis of this collection is Australian, with some material relating to New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. There are thousands of portraits of significant Australians, 45 000 paintings and 60 000 photographs. |
NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 480,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. |
Picture Australia
Contains images that cover all aspects of Australiana; including art, photography, places and events. |
Prints and printmaking
Prints and printmaking Australia Asia Pacific provides a gateway for information on printed images from Australia and the Asia Pacific region |
Timeframes
Online database of heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library - a division of the National Library of New Zealand. Contains cartoons, drawings, paintings, etc. |
Wikimedia Commons
A database of over 3,000,000 (and growing) freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute, making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. |
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Note: Some databases and many of the e-Books
include images |
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Reference Material |
| ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art |
| Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists |
| Dictionaries-XReferPlus |
| Dictionary of Art Historians |
| Getty Provenance Index Databases |
| Glossary of Literary Theory (Oingo) |
| Oxford Art Online |
| Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture |
| SYMBOLS.com |
| Timeline of Art History - from the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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E-Journals |
Aesthetics On-line
Articles about aesthetics, philosophy of art, art theory and art criticism, information about aesthetics events worldwide and links to other aesthetics-related resources on the internet including the Aesthetics-L email discussion list. |
Afterall Online
Includes reviews from Los Angeles, London and elsewhere, interviews with artists about their art practice, occasional longer essays on theoretical and philosophical topics and artist's projects. |
Aristos
An Online Review of the Arts edited by Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi. |
Art and Archaeology Magazine
Published in Paris by European journalists and critics; contains news, interviews, reviews and images from major exhibitions in Europe and US. |
The Art Bin
An art related journal in Swedish and English. |
Art New Zealand
Art New Zealand online, searchable by keyword and some articles available in full text. |
The Art Newspaper
Substantial articles on art issues and events; features "Today’s artist". The Fine Arts Library subscribes to the hard copy version. |
Art Review
Leading UK independent visual arts magazine; it encourages purchase and collection of art, includes news. |
ArtDaily
First art newspaper on the internet. News about art, predominantly US. Use lists of artists to find their work in galleries worldwide. Other sections include lists of Museums, exhibits and fairs. |
Artforum.com
In addition to selected excerpts from the magazine, artforum.com has a host of web-exclusive features, including its widely read diary Scene & Herd, as well as news and reviews that are updated each weekday. Includes links to a range of interesting art related videos. |
Art-public.com
A public art online newsletter, art-public.com publishes a regular newsletter addressed to the professionals in the field of art, architecture and urban design. |
artWORK
Free distribution arts newspaper covering Scotland and the north of England. |
Arts Journal
Weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism from more than 100 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications. |
| British Journal of Photography |
e-flux
Information about current exhibitions in US and Europe. Links to web pages of museums and dealer galleries provide examples of recent work. |
Frieze Magazine
Includes essays, reviews and columns by today’s most forward-thinking writers, artists and curators. The site also houses many podcasts by artists, curators, and thinkers on all things art. |
International Journal of Art and Design Education
Peer-reviewed journal concerned with theoretical and practical approaches, particularly the social and cultural values which inform art and design education. |
Museum and society
Museum and society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide ranging interest in all issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display. The journal is a successor to the series New Research in Museum Studies which was published by Athlone Press from 1990 to 1997. |
Natural Selection
New Zealand & Australian art reviews |
NZArtMonthly
A contributor-driven visual arts ezine offering a broad coverage of the visual arts in Australia and New Zealand. Offers free listing of upcoming art events and is reloaded at the beginning of each month. |
Nineteenth-century Art Worldwide
A peer-reviewed scholarly e-journal, sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). |
Perforations
Journal of art, music, technology, media and cultural theory and criticism which began as a print journal and is now only online. Each issue has a theme. |
716 craft·design
716 craft•design news is published monthly by Craft Australia |
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Theses & Dissertations |
ADT:
Australasian Digital Theses Program
PhD and Masters theses produced at Australian and New Zealand
universities. |
Index to
Theses
Theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and
Ireland. |
Proquest
Dissertations & Theses
Doctoral dissertations and masters' theses worldwide, with heavy North
American content |
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University of Auckland
theses |
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