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Resources for the Visual Arts

Art Databases

Art Full Text (HW Wilson)
A foundational art research database offering full-text art journals. It encompasses fine, decorative, and commercial art, as well as photography, film, and architecture.
Art Index Retrospective (HW Wilson)
A historical digital archive that contains citations only (no full-text articles) from art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art, 1929 -1984. This is an archive index chronicling over a half a century of art literature. Covering fine, decorative and commercial art, it indexes hundreds of publications, plus thousands of book reviews, interviews, anthologies and more

ARTSTOR
Artstor is JSTOR’s cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million* rights-cleared images from around the world, discoverable alongside JSTOR’s journals, books, and other primary sources on one feature-rich platform

Streaming Videos

Art and Architecture Collection (Films on Demand)

Streaming video collection. Master Academic Video Collection includes Ken Burns' documentaries, newsreels, TED talks, and programs from BBC, PBS, History Education, HBO, and many more producers of quality programs. Closed-captioned with transcripts

Museum Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications
Full-text online books from MetPublications. The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across time and cultures in order to connect all people to creativity, knowledge, ideas, and one another.
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum: Art eBook Collection
The Internet Archive link to the Guggenheim Museum’s Publications Department collection of books and catalogues to document its exhibitions and collections.

Images of Art Works from Curated Collections

Free Images from Museums
Identify hundreds of thousands of free images from world-renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Have to do a basic search to start - and then apply FILTERS for "Producers" to limit to museums.
Guggenheim's Collection Online
Features more than 1700 artworks by more than 625 artists in a searchable database.
The British Library's Flickr Albums
1,023,714 photos organized by topic.
Open Culture
A "meta-list" of free works of art online with links to museum collections.
Louvre Museum Atlas Database
The database covers all the works exhibited in the museum - some 30,000 items. Internet users, like museum visitors, will find the usual explanatory texts that accompany museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
Access images from the Met's collections.

Find Books on the Shelves in Thigpen Library

Art and Architecture books are in the N section on the shelves.

Pioneer Search - In the Library
Search for items on the shelf in one of the Vol State campus libraries.

Suggested search terms i.e. "Frank Lloyd Wright"; "Art Nouveau"; "Impressionist Movement"

Last Updated: Aug 28, 2025 10:53 AM
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