Useful Arts Web Sites

Architecture

The Great Buildings Collection - http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html

• Description: Site which "documents hundreds of buildings and leading architects with 3D models, photographic images ... commentaries, bibliographies, and web links, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. " Searchable by building name, architect, location, and building type.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Drama

For electronic texts of plays see also Electronic Texts: Drama

Inter-Play: an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals© - http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/

• Description: This site from Portland State University is an index to plays appearing in collections. It is intended as a supplement to standard indexes of plays such as Play Index and Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections. You can search by author or title keyword. The call numbers given in the resulting list are numbers at PSU. You must then search in the CCRLS catalog to find out whether the book or magazine that contains the play is available at Chemeketa or at public libraries in the area.
• Appropriate to course or program: ENG105; Theater Arts courses
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Music

All-Music Guide - http://www.allmusic.com/

• Description: A guide to music in a wide variety of genres, with historical background, outlines of important composers or performers, definitions of terms, biographies, discographies, links to Internet sites, etc.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Worldwide Internet Music Resources - http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

• Description: An Indiana University School of Music Metasite with links to Internet resources in music.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Visual Art

Ad*Access - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

• Description: Browse or search more than 7,000 advertisements that appeared in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911 through 1955. The Timeline feature provides historical context for advertisements.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff ]

Artcyclopedia: Where the World Finds Great Art - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

• Description: A great guide to art sites on the Web. You can search or browse by movement, medium, subject, nation, artist name, or women artists.
• Appropriate to course or program:ART101, ART204, ART205, ART206
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Artlex Dictionary of Visual Art - http://www.artlex.com/

• Description: Online dictionary of visual art terms.
• Appropriate to course or program: Art and Visual Communication courses
• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/

• Description: Search or browse by category more than 9,000 advertisements. The Timeline feature provides historical context for ads.
• Appropriate to course or program: Art and Visual Communication courses
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]

Frida Kahlo & Contemporary Thoughts - http://www.fridakahlo.it/

• Description: Biographical information, images of paintings, bibliography of Kahlo.
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• Description: Biografía y obras de la pintora Frida Kahlo.
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Guide to Researching Art History Using the Internet - http://www.wadsworth.com/art_d/special_features/research/index.html

• Description: Links to sites related to the study of art history. Coordinated with the chapters from Gardner's Art through the Ages (10th ed., 1996)
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Jan., 1998, p. 808)]

Georgia O'Keeffe- http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html

• Description: Includes biographical and factual information on O'Keeffe, 16 color paintings.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Mar. 1998, p. 1181]

National Gallery of Art–the collection- http://www.nga.gov/collection/

• Description: Provides a tour of the National Gallery including images. Searchable by artist or title. Guías sobre arte de la Galeria Nacional de los Estados Unidos.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Supplement 36, p. 74]

Smithsonian American Art Museum- http://americanart.si.edu/

• Description: The collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum can be searched by a variety of criteria. Search results produce a small review image with accompanying identification (title, artist, size, medium, and collection information). Larger, high-resolution images can be called from the review images. Only a portion of the museum's holdings are available online. The site also includes databases and e-mail reference help on American art.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Dec., 1997, p.627]

World Wide Arts Resources- http://wwar.com/

• Description: "The largest gateway to the arts in the world."
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Library Staff]