3,600+ terms used in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education, with images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.

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“Artists, movements, photographers, techniques, styles, and turn-of-the-century precursors.”

A Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts.

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Citations and abstracts from over 200 key international arts publications. 1984 – present

Visual arts–painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography. More »

An online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism.

This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists’ Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists’ Book Collection contains over 800 titles. The database indexes approximately 760 of those titles, over 500 of which have one to four images to visually represent the structure and/or content of the book.

Website that offers information for practicing bookbinders, book-artists, marblers, papermakers, printers, collectors, curators in libraries, and people just interested in our wide and varied field.

The Otis Library’s current collection is approximately 2,000 works. Among the holdings are books by important contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, and Vito Acconci.

The Center “fosters the joys of books and bookmaking—their history, artistry, continuing presence in our culture and their enduring importance as a medium of self-expression. We provide both a home for Bay Area book artists and a place where the wider community can discover book arts.”

Art, news and film archives, cultural artifacts, design collections, advertising, historical broadcasts, manuscripts and photographs. Some are UCB only, many are free.

“A database of 5,165,257 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.”

“The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.”

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Hammer Museum

Virtual Library Museums Pages
A nearly comprehensive directory of museums from the US and around the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
National Gallery of Art, DC

The Louvre
The National Gallery, London
Tate Online: British and international modern and contemporary art

de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Oakland Museum of California Art Department
Asian Art Museum
Cartoon Art Museum
Bay Area Museums and Attractions

Art Education, Art History, Design, Fine Arts, Organizations – an extensive directory of resources from the San Jose State University Library.

Provides links to free access websites containing biographical information on designers, architects, craftspeople, painters and sculptors from around the world.

Contemporary art and practice that engages with technology and new media. Part of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

“The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes.”