Living With Art 5e Online content by Brian Gore
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This page provides tools you can use to find the most complete and latest art-related resources on the Internet. Whether you're looking for virtual holdings, images from a particular artist, the latest information on galleries and museums, or background on art movements, these resources will prove indispensable. Consulting these sites will not only help you get the "big picture" for whatever you may be interested in-it will also ensure that you have access to the latest information possible. Make these websites your first stop.

Gateways to Art

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
http://www.amn.org/AMICO/
The AMICO digital library will initially be distributed in the academic year 1998/1999 as a university test bed project. Currently, anyone can search the "Thumbnail Catalog" of nearly 20,000 works of art to locate images by keyword, category, or date.

World Wide Arts Resources:
http://www.wwar.com/
This site probably provides the most comprehensive links to artists, art movements, galleries, museums, exhibitions and other information relevant to Art and Art History of any site on the internet. The site also provides access to employment agencies and commercial arts. It even provides an "arts locator" you can use to find out about events and activities in cities around the world.

Art Historian's Guide to the Movies
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eliason/ahgttm.htm
The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Mother of all Art History Webpages:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amidkiff/mother/
Andrew Midkiff's "MoM's Page" at the University of Michigan provides excellent links to Art History research sources, a sampling of galleries, art images and museums, and even links to fun sites like Barbie's History of Art: http://www.erols.com/browndk/art.htm . A very good starting point.

Art History Resources on the Web:
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This is a very large and detailed set of links for web resources in Art History--from Prehistoric Art to the 20th Century. While the emphasis is on Western Art, there is a section on "Non-European Art" as well.

Voice of the Shuttle:
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
VoS is an indispensable tool for accessing all kinds of information relevant to the Humanities, including locations of electronic texts and images related to Art and History. The Art and Art History URL at VoS is: Art and Art History: http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/art.html .

Timelines of Art History
BC: http://www.dc.infi.net/~gunther/tl001.html
AD: http://www.dc.infi.net/~gunther/tl002.html
(Europe and US not included) These sites link simple timelines of art history to visual images and online texts for the periods in question. Non-European cultures are emphasized at these sites.

Selected Sites

Some Good General Resources

The Internet has become an excellent nesting ground for "hypermedia" journeys into the humanities that integrate the multitude of primary source texts and images existing on line. The following resources are great starting points for locating on-line materials that are essential to the cultural backdrop of Art History. If you want to read Voltaire, or Copernicus, or search for love stories from the time of the Holy Grail, go to these sites first.

Project Gutenberg:
http://www.promo.net/pg/
A comprehensive source for finding and retrieving written masterpieces from all areas in the Humanities.

Internet Classics Archives:
http://ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/arthist10/
An award -winning source for electronic texts from the Greek, Roman and Classical world, as well as select texts from China and the East, available free on-line.

ADAM:
http://adam.ac.uk/adam/
ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a service being developed to help you find useful, quality-assured information on the Internet in the following subject areas: Fine Art, Design, Architecture, Applied Art, Media, and Theory.

Hyperhistory:
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
To get up to date on the major events and people for any particular period in World History, this is the place to go. Includes brief bios of major figures in politics art and culture, as well as interactive timelines.

Voice of the Shuttle:
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
The most comprehensive source for hypertextual studies of literature and culture available. A one stop shop for everything from Prehistory to Postmodernism, including links to numerous classic primary sources available for free on line.

Art History Resources on the Web:
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
This site offers an index of resources organized by time period, from Ancient to Modern Art.

Internet Ancient History Research Guide:
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~kverbove/IAHRG/internet.html
A great multidisciplinary source of information on the Ancient world.

"Voice of the Shuttle: 19th Century:
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/art.html#artists-19th
A very complete selection of examples related to Art History, Architecture and other elements of cultural style.

Asian Arts:
http://www.asianart.com/
The on-line journal for study of Asian Arts includes links to current exhibitions, articles and galleries, along with general resources provided by other organizations. A very useful, highly rated site.

Asian Art Index:
http://www.ArtIndex.com/links.htm
A comprehensive on line guide to art resources, galleries and museums relating to Asian Art.

CEPA
(Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art):
http://cepa.buffnet.net
This virtual gallery presents current photography exhibits, along with notes from the artist, gallery information, and links to other virtual museums. Check the Artist Call section for opportunities to submit your own work.

Artcyclopedia:
the Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
http://artcyclopedia.com/
If you are just getting started searching for fine art on the Web and you are looking for works by a particular artist, Artcyclopedia is a great jumping off place. Using Artcyclopedia, you can type in or select an artist's name, and be taken to a list of Websites providing digital images of that artist's work.

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