ART & ART HISTORY RESOURCES

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library carries many Art History resources that cover a variety of topics such as artists, painting, sculpting, art theory, and much much more. Search the Voyager Library Catalogue to see what resources are available.

See also Program Resources for:

• EVALUATING INFORMATION - Books, Web, & Journals
• RESEARCH, WRITING & COPYRIGHT
• PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL IMAGE RESOURCES
• SCULPTURE

The Art Institute of Vancouver Library uses Library of Congress classification call numbers. Art & Art History books are generally found in the call number range as follows:

New Art Books @ the Library! (Select Winter & Spring 2010 Arrivals)
Appearance & Reality: A Visual Handbook for Artists, Designers, and Makers Art and Architecture of Russia (3rd ed) History of the Surrealist Movement Map as art : contemporary artists explore cartography Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories. The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research
ART WEBSITES
General Websites
Absolute Art: Art History on the Web Art & Architecture Thesaurus - Getty Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall - graffiti art Art, Design, and Visual Thinking - an interactive textbook by Cornell University Art Guide: A Collection of Art History Internet Resources Art Historian's Guide to the Movies Art History the Key Concept: Glossary (PDF) Art History Network Art History Resources: Artists, Art Movements, Biographies, Artwork Art History Research Centre Artlex - online visual arts dictionary Art On-Line the Fine Art Directory: Art History Art on the Web Art Source Arts of Japan The Canadian Encyclopedia - Art, Artist Biographies	Chinese Art History and Culture Timeline Exploring Themes in American Art Librarians Internet Index - Art History Mark Harden's Artchive The Mother of All Art and Art History On-line Picasso Project Photography & Digital Images - Art Institute of Vancouver Subject Resources for additional art and digital imagery resources Retrospective Canadian Painting Surrealism: The Art of Self Discovery Timelines of Art History: The World - Art from 2500BC - 100CE Virtual Training Site: internet for art and design - free online tutorials designed to help design students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information literacy and IT skills The World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
Museum Collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Finish National Gallery: The Collections The Getty Museum of Art The Guggenheim New York: Online Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art: Online collection	The National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Canada Royal Institute of British Architects Smithsonian Archives of American Art Visual Collections: Images of Art, History, and Culture Women Artist's in Canada

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The Art Institute of Vancouver Library is proud to offer a collection of excellent databases and online resources that will aid in almost all of your Art & Art History inquires. These resources are available for all Art Institute of Vancouver staff, student, and faculty member and can be accessed both on campus and remotely from your home.  Brief descriptions of each resource along with the access web links are included below, along with various "how-to" user guides and manuals (indicated in dark red) that will help you use these databases. 

**Please note that you must obtain the necessary Access USER IDs & Passwords from the library to use these resources.  Please drop by at any Art Institute of Vancouver Library location, call, or email the library staff to obtain the necessary information.**

• Getty Images - If you have already signed-up for Getty Images, contact library for access codes. Otherwise, *Sign-up* for Getty Images.
  Getty Images User Guide (PDF)
  Over 500K high quality stock imagery. Students may download up to 50 high-resolution images and an unlimited number of low-resolution imagery per quarter. Images are for educational purposes only and using them for any commercial (even non-profit) or non-coursework or non-portfolio related purposes is strictly prohibited.

• Grove's Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online
  A comprehensive collection of fine art and architecture images from many of the world's most prestigious art museums, and encyclopedia articles and entries from Groves and Oxford Reference.

• H. W. WilsonWeb Omnifile Full Text Select
  Quick Tips Search Guide (PDF) Full User Guide Tutorial (PDF)
  Periodical database that provides full-text articles with their accompanying indexing and abstracts on topics in the arts, applied and pure sciences, social science, education, humanities, legal and business fields. Contains full text of articles from over 2500 publications, some back to 1982..

• Oxford Reference Online
  Contains about 100+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works and an expanding range of key titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Includes subject coverage from art & architecture to language & literature to science. See: Art & Architecture, History

• Proquest Bigchalk Electric Library
  ELibrary offers a broad range of full-text and multimedia content, including a digital archive of information sources of more than 2700 full-text periodicals, international newswires, classic books, maps, photographs, and major literary, art, and reference titles.

• Proquest “Big Bundle"
  Proquest Quick Reference Guide (PDF)
  One stop access to over 8500 periodical magazine, newspaper, trade and scholarly publications including Proquest Research Library; ABI Complete which covers business, economics, product and competitive info, corporate and management techniques and strategies; National Newspapers 27 which provides articles from major regional dailies; and Proquest Psychology which encompasses a range of topics from over 500 leading psychology publications.

Do you know of any other resources? Having trouble finding the information that you need? Need the user access codes for these databases? Please contact the Library for help, or if you have any comments or resource suggestions.

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