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Art Subject Guide

Books, Movies and Music
Fine Arts are located in the N section of call numbers. Subcategories include ND (Painting) and NK (Decorative Arts - ceramics, etc.). Pottery is located in the TT900s along with other handicrafts and home arts. Prominent art reference books include the Dictionary of Art and the Encyclopedia of World Art, both located in the N section of the Reference collection.

Databases
AcademicOneFile Locate articles in the social and physical sciences, arts, humanities, national news sources and general interest magazines.
Credo Reference Hundreds of reference works covering a wide-range of disciplines that can be searched by topic or images.
OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson) Search multiple databases for full-text articles in numerous disciplines, including Education, General Science, Applied Science & Technology, Humanities and Art.

 
Websites
Architecture links on the web
Art in Africa
Art of Pacific Cultures
ArtCyclopedia An online encyclopedia that includes links to art museums around the world.
ArtLex
ArtsConnectEd A portal for visual arts resources
ARTstor The collection is from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Asian Art The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.  You can travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries.
Chinese Ceramics
C. Szwedzicki A digital collection of rare books and images related to Native American art.
Getty Arts Guide
National Museum of African Art
Prints & Photographs at the Library of Congress
Smarthistory a multimedia "textbook" for art and art history
Ted talks on art, arts and architecture (some overlap)
Web Gallery of Art
Women Artists of the American West

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