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Fine arts
Subject guide
This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DET username and password. Don’t know your DET username and password? Contact your College Student Administration or your teacher.
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Associations & organisations
ARLIS/ANZ
Arts Libraries Society Australia & New Zealand
Australian Business Arts Foundation
Australian Network for Art and Technology
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists’ CO-OP
Information, exhibition and research centre for contemporary Aboriginal art and culture
CAN
Collections Australia Network - gateway to collecting institutions across Australia
Museums Australia
National Association for the Visual Arts
NETS Australia
National network of independent arts organisations
Regional Galleries Association of NSW
Represents 40 public regional galleries of NSW
Links
ABC Arts Online
Arts & media
TAFE Studylinks
Australian Indigenous art
Australian Web Resources
A guide to art related Australian web sites by the University of Tasmania Library
D*Hub
Online design resource
OzArts
Australia Council for the Arts' program of market development initiatives to showcase the best of Australia’s contemporary arts to the world.
Regional Arts Australia Online
Sydney Gallery School
At Meadowbank College
Related subject guides
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Graphic design
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Directories & search engines
ART-search
Australian art search engine
ArtAlmanach
Guide to Australian galleries
Australian Art Galleries
Artists and art galleries directory
AustArt : Australian Art Journals Index
Provided by the National Library of Australia
Museums & galleries
Art Gallery NSW
Museum of Contemporary Art
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
Powerhouse Museum
Government information
Artbank
National contemporary art rental
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body
Arts NSW
NSW Government’s arts policy and funding body
Culture and Recreation Portal
Gateway to Australian cultural resources
Prints and Printmaking Australia Asia Pacific
Gateway for information on printed images from Australia and the Asia Pacific region
Legal information
Arts Law Centre of Australia
Australian Copyright Council
Guide to Basic Legal Issues for Artists
Viscopy
Australasian visual arts copyright collecting agency
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International subject web links |
Organisations
IFACCA
International Federation of Art Councils and Culture Agencies
iniva
Institute of International Visual Arts
Visual Resources Association
Art history
Art history resources on the web
Covers art history from the prehistoric to the 20th century.
Art history writing guide
Mother of all art and art history links pages
World Wide Web Virtual Library: history of art
Gateway to art history resources
Links
ARTINFO
Art sales index (Sign up for free access)
artnet
Buy and sell modern and contemporary art, fine prints and photographs.
Free art lessons online
intute: arts & humanities
Gateway to web resources for education and research
Lessons in color theory
Lessons on topics such as colour wheels, the history of colour, and colour mixing from Art School Online.
vads
Online resource for visual arts
World Wide Arts Resources
Gateway to qualitative arts information
Directories & search engines
Artcyclopedia
Index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources
Virtual Library: art galleries
Virtual Library: museums pages
Arts and humanities
International Directory of Art Libraries
Universes in Universe
Visual arts from Africa, Asia, the Americas in the international art context |
Museums & galleries
Auckland Art Gallery
J. Paul Getty Museum
Louvre, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Gallery London
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Vatican Museums
State Hermitage Museum, Russia
Online collections & galleries
Artchive
Non-profit web gallery of digital images
ARTstor
Digital library of approximately 700,000 images.
Colección Cisneros
Database on art and artists from Latin America
Digital Dada Library
Image database
This database of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco contains over 82,000 images
OCAIW
Orazio Centaro's art images on the web
WebExhibits
An interactive museum which includes van Gogh's letters, colour vision & art and causes of colours
Web Gallery of Art
Contains European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850).
WebMuseum, Paris
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Art terms
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information.
The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects.
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eJournals & eBooks |
eJournals & newsletters
Freely available journals
EBSCOhost
Click the link of an EBSCOhost database or of one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET username and password.
ANZRC
• Architecture Australia
• Arts & activities
• Craft arts international
• Metro
MasterFile Premier
Business Source Premier
Gale Cengage Learning
Click the link to the databases or of one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET username and password.
Gale databases
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eBooks
NetLibrary
Click the link to NetLibrary or to any of the examples and then click on "URL". Log in using your DET Username and password.
eReference
Free eReference
ArtLex -
Art dictionary
Conservation and art materials encyclopedia online
This database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials.
Dictionary of Australian Artists Online (DAAO)
The DAAO is an open access and dynamic scholarly reference work on colonial artists; women artists to 1950; black and white artists; Aboriginal artists of the Western Desert and Sydney Region.
Multilingual glossary for art librarians
Entries are in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
Oxford Art Online
Log in to Oxford Art Online using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, do a keyword search or click on links to biographies, subject enties, images or links to reference works.
- Grove Art Online (e.g. Hannah Höch - Biography)
- Oxford companion to Western art (e.g. Art Noveau)
- Encyclopedia of aesthetics (e.g. Survey of Thought)
- The concise oxford dictionary of art terms
Oxford Reference Online
Log in to Oxford Reference Online using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to e.g. Art & Architecture .
- Concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists
- Dictionary of modern design
- Dictionary of Twentieth-Century art
- Oxford companion to Western art
- Oxford dictionary of art
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Databases covering fine arts subjects
Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and regarding instructions go to the eResources Portal.
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered, including fine arts. |
DET username and password required. |
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Art & Architecture Complete - BETA is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 240 periodicals and 140 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, college students, and general viewers. |
DET username and password required. |
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Business Source Premier (BSP) is one of the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals. Full text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including art marketing and management. |
DET username and password required.
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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription are the 'General Reference Centre Gold' and 'Fine Arts and Music Collection'. Search these databases on keywords related to fine arts. |
DET username and password required.
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The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Modern world history online and 'Ancient and Medieval history online data bases contain articles, illustrations and videos relating to art history. |
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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This multi-disciplinary database provides more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information. Covers virtually every subject area of general interest. It also includes nearly 500 full text reference books. Search this database on keywords such as aesthetics, artists, art objects etc. |
DET username and password required.
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NetLibrary provides full-text access to a wide range of online books, including business and management. Currently more than 800 eBooks are available in this collection as well as 3400 publicly-accessible eBooks of Project Gutenberg. |
DET username and password required.
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Is a new gateway into art research and access point for Oxford art reference subscriptions and publications. It is the new home of Grove Art Online which provides access to 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images. |
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines and fine arts reference titles such as the Concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists. |
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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Library catalogues
The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.
Subject headings
Catalogue links to some fine arts and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.
Macquarie University Library
Macquarie University Library has an extensive collection of resources in the fine arts area. NSI has a reciprocal borrower's agreement with Macquarie University ($44 per calendar year). Please ask your NSI library staff for details on how to access this service.
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Last updated: 04.02.2010
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