art & design history
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Links are in alphabetical order . Please note that some of these sites are non-academic and may contain banner advertising.
A full list of acronyms which occur in the H.E. and Art, Design and Media and Communications Sector.
AMICO
A
non profit-making association of many (mostly US) institutions with
collections of art. An institutional subscription is required to access
it.
amico website
www.amico.org
Art & Architecture Thesaurus On Line
Sponsored
by the Getty Institute's Library the ATT indexes the Getty's extensive
holdings through the use of a structured vocabulary containing around
125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be
used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture,
and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity
to the present, and the scope is global.
www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat
Art & Archaeology Technical Abstracts Art and Archaeology
Technical
Abstracts is a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts
related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural
heritage, and is provided by the Getty Conservation Institute. An
institutional subscription is required to access it.
www.getty.edu
Artcyclopedia A Fine Art Search Engine
A
remarkable comprehensive index of numerous artists represented at
hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.
www.artcyclopedia.com
ArtLex - A dictionary of Visual Art
This
site provides definitions for more than 2,600 terms, along with
numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to
other resources on the Web.
www.artlex.com
Artguide - UK Galleries & Museums Guide
A
useful site that provides comprehensive information about the location,
special collections, opening hours, admission prices etc
http://www.artguide.org/
Art History resources on the web Maintained by an American Art History Professor, Chris Witcombe.
Good
starting point for links to art history. Coverage Western and non
Western art history, up to 21st century, though stronger on the earlier
periods.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
AAH - Association of Art Historians
AAH
was formed in the UK in 1974 to promote the study of art history. It
represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of
the discipline, including art, design, architecture, photography, film
and other media, cultural studies, conservation and museum studies.
www.aah.org.uk
DHS - Design History Society
The
DHS works to consolidate design history as a distinct field of study
through its journal, newsletter, annual conference and other events. It
seeks to encourage the development of a strong design history community
within which awareness of new research can be heightened.
www.designhistorysociety.org
DRS - Design Research Society
The
DRS was founded in 1967 and is a multi-disciplinary international
learned society for the design research community. The Society supports
many kinds of activities that promote research and disseminates
research findings. Among these activities are digital discussion
forums, major research conferences with published proceedings,
journals, and a monthly emailed newsletter of research activities. It
has facilitated a design research network in 35 countries comprising of
members who maintain contact through the publications and activities of
the society. The DRS publishes a free electronic newsletter and the
international journal 'Design Studies'.
www.designresearchsociety.org
GLAADH - GLobalising Art, Architecture and Design History
The
outcome of a FDTL project that "Seeks to encourage and embed cultural
diversity in the art, architecture and design history curriculum in the
UK."
www.glaadh.ac.uk
Mother of all art and art history links pages
Hosted by the University of Michigan, linking art history on the web.
www.art-design.umich.edu/mother
The Textiles Collection
The
collection is a research, learning and teaching resource based at
University for the Creative Arts. It contains 3,000 artefacts ranging
from Coptic textiles dating from 800-1,000 AD through to Scandanavian
furnishing fabrics from 1950 to 1990.
www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/ST.html
Timeline of Art History
A
useful website hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and based on
its own collection of Worldwide arts resources which represents a
chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of
art.
www.metmuseum.org/toah
VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service)
VADS is the
online resource for visual
arts and is based at is based at the Farnham Campus of the University
College for the Creative Arts. It has provided services to the academic
community for 12 years
and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections
comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright
cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.
www.vads.ac.uk
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Art History
Good academic coverage of a large variety of sites sponsored by CHArt, the Computers and History of Art Group.
www.chart.ac.uk/vlib