MCCC Library Guides: Humanities 151: Art

Art Reference Database (OXFORD/GROVE ART ONLINE) & Web Sites (DIA & TMA)

Online handbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias
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Oxford/Grove Art Online (OUP) This link opens in a new window
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Find articles, images, and image links for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from ancient to contemporary. Comprehensive coverage plus a timeline of world art, general visual art topic overviews, pronunciation guides for artist names and art terms, podcasts and interviews with contemporary artists, and more.
- Oxford Art Online Training Video (from Oxford Art, 11:09)
- Oxford Art Images Permissions help (from Oxford Art)

Use Oxford/Grove Art Online for the fine arts to obtain scholarly articles and images for a wide variety of art--

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Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
The DIA art collection is among the top six in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century.

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Toledo Museum of Art
The TMA has more than 30,000 works of art representing American and European painting, the history of art in glass, ancient works, Asian and African art, medieval art, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic arts, and modern and contemporary art.

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