This archive comprises two subject specific collections, Architecture & Design and Art & Photography. Spanning 1854-2005, this primary source collection focuses on art, art history, architecture, and restoration. It covers a range of sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts through to interior and industrial design, and landscape gardening.
The Australian and New Zealand Art Sales Digest contains past auction results of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, and offered for sale in both countries of last 35 years. The data covers over 1,500 auction sales from over 50 auction houses dated back to the early 1970s. Document supply available.
Provides full-text access to hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th century. Subjects covered include literature, philosophy, science, social sciences, music, drama, art and architecture. Document supply available.
This complete database of Australasian content searches across all Informit subject databases. It covers the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Literature, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.
Useful for HSC Society and Culture, HSC English and HSC History.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital archive of scholarly material in the social sciences and humanities and the sciences. It includes the full text of non-current issues from over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials. The State Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections Parts I - IX and the Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets collection. Document supply available. Useful for HSC History, HSC Society & Culture and HSC English.
Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It has over 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.
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Collections of photographs, albums and photographically-illustrated books from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Topics include exploration, travel, Empire, colonization, life in colonized regions, topography, archaeology, science, medicine, criminology, photography as reproduction of art works, Key events and wars, etc. Document supply available.
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.
From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hotdogs, world fairs have shaped our world. This eresource digitizes primary source material from over 200 world fairs and exhibitions. Coverage includes the world fairs held in Sydney (1879) and Melbourne (1881), and Australian material for fairs around the world. Key exhibits: aeronautics, art and architecture, chemistry and chemicals, entertainment, fashion and beauty, food and drink, lifestyle and domestic living, light and electricity, manufacturing and machines, nature and natural resources, technology and communications, transportation and visual culture. By Adam Matthew Digital.
The largest and most extensive database of Australian & New Zealand paintings sold at auction since 1973, including sale records from over 50 auction houses and artist's biographies. Document supply available.
"Built upon a proud 22-year heritage, ArtsHub is Australia's leading independent online resource dedicated to the world of the arts."
Features current arts news, articles, commentary and reviews for visual arts, performing arts, literature, music and live entertainment. Includes career advice, job listings in the arts and culture industry, grant advertising and opportunities, and links to education courses Australia-wide.
This site provides information on the various grants that are available, how to apply for them and links to various arts organisations.
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Images and information about prints and printmaking, posters, and book arts from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands.
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A database of still images and footage from historical cinema newsreels produced by one of the oldest media companies in the world, British Pathe. Low-resolution previews may be downloaded for free. High-resolution licensed clips are available for purchase online.
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DAAO provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and links to images databases. The DAAOs foundation biographies come from: - The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr - Heritage: The national women's art book, edited by Joan Kerr - Aboriginal artists of the western desert: a biographical dictionary, by Vivien Johnson - and biographies from collecting institutions and fine arts academics. Born digital biographies are now being added by: - The Storylines Project, College of Fine Arts, UNSW - National Gallery of Australia - Queensland Art Gallery - commercial galleries - academics and postgraduate researchers - artists and art lovers.
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The Tate gallery, UK website includes over 65,000 images of works held by the gallery, as well as research papers, art history, exhibition information and education.
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