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• Oxford Art Online
  Over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography) from prehistory to the present. current.

  Also Known As

  • Grove Art Online

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  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
• Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective
  Summarizes scholarly articles about art published in national and international journals. Indexes yearbooks, and museum bulletins, and reproductions of works of art. 1984-indexes; 1994-abstracts.
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• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  Indexes 2,000 scholarly journals in archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. International coverage. 1930s-current.
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• ARTstor
  Over 500,000 high-resolution art and architecture images, for educational (non-commercial) use. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
  

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  The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 500,000 images. Covers artistic traditions across many times and cultures, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

  Contains the following collections (descriptions from the ARTstor Web Site):

  • The Image Gallery A deep and broad collection of images of world visual art and culture.
  • The Art History Survey Collection Key monuments of world art defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts
  • The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection Images documenting the history of American art, architecture, visual and material culture.
  • The Huntington Archive of Asian Art Broad photographic overview of the art of Asia from 3000 B.C. through the present.
  • The Illustrated Bartsch A collection derived from the standard art reference publication, The Illustrated Bartsch, which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries.
  • The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive Wall paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, a key site on the ancient Silk Route.
  • The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection Images representing the collections of the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

  Contact Michael Young, Art & Design Librarian, Tel. 860-486-4953, email michael.s.young@uconn.edu for a demonstration for your department of this sumptuous resource.

  Technical requirements for access to ARTSTOR:

  • Flash Player: Version 6 or above
  • Java: Sun Version 1.3 or above
  • Pop-up blocking software: Must be disabled or set to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org
  • Cookies: Must be enabled
  • Monitor resolution: 1024x768 is recommended
  • Memory: 128 MB or higher

  Supported browsers

  • PC: Windows 2000 or XP, Microsoft IE 5.5 and above, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.5 and above, PWB 2.05 and above
  • Macintosh: OS 10.2 ot OS 10.3 (10.3 is required to use Java 1.4), Microsoft IE 5.2 and above, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.5 and above
  • Linux: Any version, Netscape 6.0 and above, Mozilla 1.2 and above, Firefox 0.9.1

  Access to ARTstor is restricted to use within the United States or at facilities which are owned by the University of Connecticut in foreign countries.

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• Rhizome
  Includes ArtBase, which contains over 1,800 digital art works, and TextBase which holds over 2,500 new media art-related articles.
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  Programs include an annual cycle of commissions, journalism, discussion and exhibitions. Rhizome supports the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.

  Create a free account to access the archives. Click on join your university's organizational subscription and use your @uconn.edu email account to ensure access to all the archived material.

  If you have any questions, please contact Michael Young, the University of Connecticut?s art librarian, for assistance. Rhizome.org is an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome's Organizational Subscriptions are supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

  Access restricted to University of Connecticut.