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Internet resources for the visual arts

The best of the Web

Welcome to this guide to the best of the Web for the Visual Arts.

In these pages you will ﬁnd a selectionofsome ofthe most useful websites for students,lecturers and researchersworking in the Visual Arts.The selection is by no means exhaustive,but it should give you a ﬂavour oftherange ofresources available on theInternet for education and research.

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Cover images left to right:

Cattle at the Mona Lisa

,courtesy ofBen Harris-Roxas,available from http://www.ﬂickr.com/

A contemporary art installation ofa dead Oaktree covered in red fabric adorns the Englishcountryside on December 9,2005,in Lydham,Shropshire,England

.Copyright:Getty Images,available from the Education Image Gallery:http://edina.ac.uk/eig/

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Contents

Art history,theory and criticism1 Artists3 Art materials and techniques4Conservation and restoration5Fine and contemporary arts6Images and image banks9Museums and galleries10News and information11

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Internet resources for the visual arts

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Art history, theory and criticism

AHDS Visual Arts

http://www.ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/ AHDS Visual Arts maintains a searchable onlinearchive ofdigital resources for use by the visual artscommunity for learning,teaching and research.

The Art Movements Directory

http://www.artmovements.co.uk/This is a guide to major movements and periods inart,described in detail along with their background,philosophies,techniques,key dates and artists.

Art History

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html A comprehensive index ofart history resources,focusing on Western art fromclassical times to the present,including images and essays.

ARARA:Art and Architecture ofthe Americas

http://www2.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/arara/ ARARA is an online journal for the Arts and Architecture ofthe Americas frompre-Columbian times to the present day.The full contents ofthe journal,including abstracts,papers and reviews,are available from 1999.

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/ A free,refereed ejournal devoted to the study ofnineteenth-century art acrossthe globe,with an extensive selection ofessays and reviews.

Papers ofSurrealism

http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/publications/papers/ A journal ofcriticism ofSurrealist art and its inﬂuences.The website is arrangedby issue,but is also grouped under special themes,such as:Objects and Junkor Science and the Occult.

Abstraction in the Twentieth Century:Total Risk Freedom Discipline

http://artnetweb.com/abstraction/frontis.htmlThis website accompanied the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition Abstraction inthe Twentieth Century,and discusses Abstract Expressionism,monochromepainting,minimal and post-minimal sculpture.

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