Art

Online Resources

• Grove Art
  • Access over 45,000 articles on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day and over 21,000 biographies. 
  • Over 2,500 art images and line drawings and over 40,000 image links from high quality museum and other art sites.
  • Extensive coverage of World Art, including information on civilisations and culture of Africa, Asia, Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic World, Japan, Korea, Europe, the Americas, Pacific and Aboriginal Australia, Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Near East. 

• Infotrac
  • Design Week
  • Journal of Film and Video

• CREDOreference includes -
  • Biographical Dictionary of Artists
  • Bloomsbury Guide to Art
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Fashion & Fashion Designers
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers

• KnowUK includes -
  • Filmmakers Yearbook 2008
  • Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art
  • Willings Press Guide
  • Writers & Artists Yearbook

• Oxford Reference Online includes -
  • Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Art
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
  • Oxford Dictionary of Art
  • Dictionary of Modern Design
  • Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art

• Who's Who & Who Was Who - Who's Who includes information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life, and Who Was Who is an historical archive of over 90,000 deceased people who were previously included in Who's Who.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - look through over 50,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britains past, as well as various themes.

Resources available in the library

Books

• On all aspects of fine and decorative art
• Good collection on British artists including many standard works

• European artists and established artisitic styles such as  Abstract, Surrealism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Romantics, Expressionism, Neo Classical

• Dictionaries of painters, e.g. Victorian, Watercolourists, Women Artists

• Artists monograms and signatures

• Who’s Who in Art 1929 to date

• Printed edition of the Grove Dictionary of Art   

Magazines

• AN Magazine - current year only
• Art Review - 1981 to date
• Modern Painters - 1988 to date
• The Artist - 1897-1902 and 1935 to date

• Apollo - 1925-1986
• Art Journal - 1849-1911
• Burlington Magazine -1903-1986
• Connoisseur - 1901-1986
• Magazine of Art - 1878-1904