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| Daily digest of arts and cultural journalism from Englis language newspapers, magazines, and television. Features news archives arranged by artistic area such as dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and media. Also incorporates a search facility and provides links to the online arts sections of newspapers. | |
| Peer reviewed journal about the psychological study of the arts. Includes a forum, and opportunity to discuss articles with authors. | ||
| Traces the history of political cartoons in the US from the early nineteenth century onwards. Features samples of cartoons covering topics such as women's suffrage, the America First campaign of 1915, and Theodore Roosevelt as the personification of American imperialism. Also offers the complete Congressman Pumphrey satire on political corruption in 1907 Washington, and information on cartoonists such as Frederick Opper and Homer Davenport. | ||
| Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Includes information on the library, its collections, services, catalogues, publications and exhibitions. | ||
| Research centre and picture library, based upon a unique archive of original cartoon artwork supported by a reference library of books, pamphlets, and AV materials. The Centre's main objectives are to conserve and catalogue cartoons, to encourage research into all aspects and periods of cartooning, to plan and promote exhibitions of cartoon originals, and to service teaching in a variety of disciplines. | ||
| Collection of animated films created with several techniques, including clay, puppet, and pen drawings. Selections demonstrate the connections between newspaper comic strips and early animated films and also offer a glimpse into the social attitudes of the period. Available in RealPlayer, MPEG, and Quicktime formats, the films are searchable by keyword or browsable by title or subject. | ||
| National centre to coordinate access to and facilitate the creation and use of scholarly electronic resources in the arts and humanities. | ||
| Presents an encyclopaedia of cartoons and their characters. Also features information on the creator, production company, date first shown, and original medium of each entry. | ||
| A discursive representation of aspects of Arabic culture and arts, published in the English language. Full text versions are available for many magazine features, which include book reviews, essays, and interviews with intellectuals of the Arab world. Film, theatre, and women's issues are also covered. | ||
| Essays investigating artistic styles including abstraction, figure drawing, historical subjects, landscape and marine art, portraiture, still life, and topographical views. A selection of annotated images, biographies of artists, and related glossaries accompanies each section. | ||
| Searchable thesaurus providing exact and keyword matches, definitions and applications, synonyms and spelling variants. | ||
| Fee based database of artist signatures and monograms, offering 142,000 signature examples from more than 65,000 artists. Signatures are mainly from paintings produced since the 14th century, with some coming from sculptures, watercolours and prints. | ||
| An interactive system offering details of research resources held by the Institution's libraries, archives, and research units. Provides access to the Freer Gallery of Art Library with examples of Asian art, photographic archives comprising the Peter A Juley and Son Collection, and Smithsonian Chronology listing significant events in the history of the Smithsonian Institution. | ||
| Information about the Belgian cartoonist Herge (1907 1983) and the adventures of his most famous creation, Tintin. Includes a biography of the artist, and details of characters, cinema and television productions of Tintin, and the foundation which now aims to increase awareness of Herge's works. Also features news and tribute sections. Available in English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish. | ||
| List of standard terms for the indexing and retrieval of still images. Enables users to search for functional and physical attributes of graphic materials to identify items according to type, such as publicity stills, booklets, juvenile art, and gameboards. | ||
| Body of terms for the subject indexing of visual materials. Provides a controlled vocabulary for describing the activities, objects, types of people, events, and places represented in prints, photographs, posters, architectural drawings, and cartoons. | ||
| VADS provides the UK higher education community with access to digital research data appropriate for re use, by building an on-line archive of electronic resources created by and of use to the visual arts community. These resources will adhere to agreed standards of best practice for the creation, management, preservation and access of electronic information. | ||
| The purpose of the art in context web site is to preserve and increase the availability of information important for research, education, public awareness and understanding in fine art. Includes indexes of galleries and dealers, museums, artists and current exhibitions. | ||
| Index to art related journals, including modern art, Asian art, aesthetics, popular culture, and design. | ||
| Image collection depicting posters and political artworks from riots, revolutionary movements, and popular struggles around the world. Presents graphics relating to Paris 1968, the Spanish revolution and civil war, the black power movement, and Irish republicanism. | ||
| Art Abstracts (formerly Art Index) comprises the bibliographic contents of 280 leading art periodicals journals, museum bulletins and yearbooks. The database gives references to articles, reviews, exhibition listings and many other types of material. Reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals are also fully detailed. The database has around 400,000 records and is updated monthly. It indexes periodicals from 1984, and includes abstracts from 1994 onwards. Subscription is required but a trial service is available. | ||
| Information about the Arts and Crafts movement, with bibliographies, details of historic sites, and an events calendar. Also includes a list of in print books by and about William Morris. | ||
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