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History of Art: Web Resources

Library subject guide for History of Art

Video Art Resources

Video art in Library Search

We hold a small number of DVDs and videos listed in Library Search with the subject term “video art”. See the list.

You could also try searching Library Hub Discover or WorldCat for video art held on DVD at other libraries which we may be able to borrow via Get It For Me.

!Women Art Revolution

Artist, curator and critic interviews chronicling the feminist art movement in the 1970s.

Art21

Documentary films about the world’s most ground-breaking contemporary artists.

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Videos from the visual arts centre of the University of California Berkeley, including films, performances and conversations.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last 5 years from a selected list of recorded channels.

Dia Watch & Listen

Video and audio from the Dia Art Foundation.

 

Guggenheim Museum

Videos and documentaries about art and artists from around the world.

Hammer Channel

Programming and artist interviews from the Hammer Museum.

Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth videos on Vimeo.

ICA Boston

Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston videos on YouTube, including interviews with artists and studio visits.

Louisiana Channel

Videos on the Arts, featuring the artists.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Videos from the Museum of Contemporary Art, including artist video projects and video art.

Museum of Modern Art

Includes a collection of time-based works ranging from moving images, film installations, video, performances, motion- and sound-based works.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

SFMOMA Shorts takes you inside the studios, and minds, of a fascinating and diverse range of artists and creators.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Includes a Meet the Artist series and lecture series.

Studio Museum in Harlem

Includes artist talks and film screenings that celebrate the moving image as a medium and an inspiration.

Tate Gallery

Videos about art and artists around the world. Includes artist interviews and live performances.

UbuWeb

This archive site includes Film & Video, presenting thousands of films and videos for educational and non-commercial use.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Videos from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Useful Web Resources

Asia Art Archive

Asia Art Archive has one of the most valuable growing collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, freely available from our website and onsite library. The collection comprises a vast range of documentation, including the personal archives of significant artists, educators, and art professionals as well as key exhibitions and art spaces. Search for material or use the Menu > Collections to browse.

Art UK

Art UK is a cultural education charity with the mission to make the art in UK public collections accessible for enjoyment, learning and research. Art UK brings together the nation's art on one platform. It hosts digitised artworks, tells the stories behind the art and creates opportunities for public interaction with art. It includes digital art, drawings, paintings, photography, print, sculpture and mixed media. 

Cameo Art Materials Database

The Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO) is a database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation. First developed as a materials database in 1997 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston it has expanded with the cooperation of multiple institutions to include several reference collections. 

Digital Art History Directory - Open Image Collections

A directory of open image collections that are freely available for use.

Europeana

Europeana provides digital access to European cultural heritage material to inspire and inform fresh perspectives and open conversations about our history and culture. Europeana provides access to millions of cultural heritage items from institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more.

Getty Publications Virtual Library

Read and download over 300 Getty publications for free. Coverage includes painting, photography, architecture and antiquities.

 

Getty Research Portal

The Getty Research Portal™ is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online

The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), is a structured resource that can be used to improve access to information for art, architecture, and other material culture.

Union List of Artist Names® Online

The Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN) is a structured resource that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and other material culture through an authoratative metadata set of artists' names

The Getty Vocabularies are intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture, and other material culture.

Cultural Objects Name Authority® Online

CONA compiles titles, attributions, depicted subjects, and other metadata about works of art, architecture, and cultural heritage, both extant and historical, physical and conceptual.
CONA also integrates the Iconocraphical Authority Records, which he scope of IA includes proper names and other information for named events, themes and narratives from religion/mythology, legendary and fictional characters, themes from literature, works of literature and performing arts, and legendary and fictional places. IA includes proper names not covered by the other Getty Vocabularies

Collecting & Provenance Research

Resources on the history of collecting, provenance, art markets, and display around the world. This includes the Getty Provenance Index®, which contains more than 2.3 million records taken from source material such as archival inventories, auction catalogs, and dealer stock books.

Kubikat logoKubikat

The common library catalogue of the German university-independent art historical research institutes. It does not contain full text, but is useful for discovering materials, especially those written in languages other than English.