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Additional Guides in the Area of Art and Art History

• Art Education ­ • Faith and Art ­ • Museums and Special Collections ­ • Architecture ­ • Photography ­

Photography Subject Guide

Research Databases


(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)

Art Abstracts


Art Abstracts includes information compiled by specialists in all fields of art to provide an international perspective. It indexes nearly 400 major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as a number of periodicals in European languages.
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ARTstor


ARTstor is an image collection which documents artistic traditions across all times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual and material culture.
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Hekman Digital Archive


The HDA contains digital collections related to Calvin College & Calvin Theological Seminary in the academic departments of Art, Biology, CAS, and History.

  • Art: images relating to Art History as well as instructional aids including images of famous buildings around the world, fiber arts, maps, and ceramics.
  • Biology: images of seedless plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
  • CAS: images of costumes through the ages and theater buildings from various countries.
  • History: images of life in 11 Turkish cities from Adana to Tarsus and China through the ages.

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Reference Materials



Dictionary of Art

- N31 .D5 1996
A comprehensive 34-volume set with more than 45,000 entries on worlwide topics, ranging from prehistory through the art of the 1990s.
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Web Sources



George Eastman House


George Eastman House is an independent museum that focuses on the story of photography and motion pictures.
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International Center of Photography


The Permanent Collection at the International Center of Photography (ICP) contains over 100,000 photographs. The collection spans the history of the photographic medium, from daguerreotypes to gelatin silver and digital chromogenic prints.
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Librarians Index to the Internet: Arts & Humanities


Something for everyone here, from aesthetics to textiles. Slightly greater emphasis on collections, galleries, exhibits, etc. based in California.
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Museum of Contemporary Photography - Chicago


The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography.
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Photo-eye.com


Photo-eye.com is the international photography guide for photographers.
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Prints and Photographs Online Catalog


A collection of more than 100 years of photographs located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Voice of the Shuttle - Art


Voice of the Shuttle is a long-standing subject directory for the humanities, created by an English professor in 1995.
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WorldArt Web Kiosk


A huge image database From California State University of over 35,000 records.
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Periodicals



Afterimage


Afterimage is a publication of the Visual Studies Workshop, a nonprofit media arts center. It is an important voice in the avant-garde photography, film, video and visual book community.
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Aperture


Aperture—the premier not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to advancing fine photography—was founded in 1952 by photographer Ansel Adams and others.
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ejournal locator (SFX)


The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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Art and Art History Subject Guide Librarian


DeMey, Kathy

Reference Librarian

Contact Info:
Hekman Library 200 Phone: 526-6310 Email: kdemeyATcalvin.edu; Liaison areas: Music, Art, French, Spanish. Office hours: Monday 12:30-3, 5-6; Tuesday 5-6; Wednesday 4-6; Thursday 5-10; Friday 12:30-3.

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