Art and design

Databases

Art Full Text and Art Retrospective references to journal articles, yearbooks and museum bulletins. Its focus is on painting, sculpture, drawing and architecture - the "fine arts".
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts.
Design and Applied Arts Index An international index to current design and applied arts journals. Covers well the areas of industrial design, graphic design, typography and packaging.
Design Special Collection is an index to a special collection of magazines and books housed at the Prahran Campus, consisting of mainly historical material covering the first half of the twentieth century. Many architectural and interior design journals are included in the index.

Australian National University
Canberra School of Art Library
National Library of Australia
Images 1. is an online gallery of more than 13,500 indexed
images.
State Library of New South Wales
State Library of Victoria library catalogue Arts Library, art,music and performing arts. Multimedia source catalogue - image database
State Library of Queensland The State Library of Queensland catalogue includes items in the James Hardie Library of Australian Fine Arts. The James Hardie Library is Australia's premiere fine arts collection. It contains some thousands of books and periodicals on Australian art and artists as well as exhibition catalogues.The Queensland digital library provides access to the Johnstone Gallery archival collections as well as photographs from Picture Queensland.

Australian Humanities Review An interdisciplinary electronic journal published every ten weeks.
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Emigre An importantgraphic design magazine. Includes an artist index and bibliography.

Antiques and Arts Australia Ballarat Fine Art Gallery an Australian regional art gallery of some note
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria a significant gallery of the southern hemisphere
National Museum of Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney http://www.phm.gov.au/ the major Australian public museum. Exhibitions, programs and research span the fileds of science, technology, industry, design and decorative arts.

Aboriginal Studies Virtual Library Aboriginal.html information on aboriginal art, music and culture.
ANAT - Australian Network for Art and Technology includes newsletter and project information.
ANU Institute of the Arts Canberra School of Art
Archives of American Art The archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, is a database of nearly 8,000 records "describing personal papers and interviews of artists, dealers, art historians, curators, collectors, and others, and records of art galleries, museums, art organizations and exhibitions.
Australian Art Sales DigestContains records of art prices from major auction houses, including many less known artists
ArtServe This server from the National University department of Art History offers over 10,000 images
Artsinfo Artsinfo is a single point of access for information about all of the assistance available in the arts. It details 6,000 funding opportunities, products and services.
Arts Victoria An extensive guide to the arts in Victoria.
ARLIS/ANZ Homepage Arts Libraries Societies Australia and New Zealand. It gives information on their various meetings and projects.
The Australian Council for the Arts Supports and promotes the arts.
National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collections Pictorial collection of over 40,000 original works of art.
Urban exile Sydney based hard space and internet gallery
Web of Art

Author: Gordon H. Turnbull Design Librarian (gturnbull@swin.edu.au)