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, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.
Useful for HSC Society and Culture, HSC English and HSC History.
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.
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.
The Artcyclopedia is primarily an index to where paintings, sculptures and other great works of fine art can be viewed online, at hundreds of art museum sites and online archives worldwide. Links are classified by artist, and where possible by categories such as movement (for example, impressionism, cubism), medium (for example, photography, painting), subject matter (for example, landscapes, still life), and by nationality. The site also includes a comprehensive list of art museum sites worldwide, and a guide to visual search engines on the Internet.
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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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A collection of more than 120,000 images, 15,000 of which are available online. Images include natural and historic places listed in the Register of the National Estate and the Australian Heritage Database.
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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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A database of historical images of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Museum of Chinese Australian History but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections. Built into the database is the beginnings of an encyclopaedia of Chinese-Australian history, complete with bibliography, which provides contextual information about the images in the database. CHIA is a joint project between the Chinese Museum and La Trobe University ( Asian Studies Program ), supported by the Australian Research Council and the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre ( Melbourne University ).
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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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An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter.
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NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 300,000 images digitised from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
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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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