WWW sites
Professional and Government organizations
AMOL (Australian Museums and Galleries Online)
content is now available on
CAN (Collections Australia Network).
This site is vital to your study and research.
It includes
Working with collections
Standards and guidelines
Publications....... manuals etc
Collections Council of Australia
American Association of Museums includes
AAM Standards and Best Practices
for U.S. Museums
and a site search for "standards" is also very useful.
Australian government's Culture and recreation portal, which can be searched for websites, reports, documents etc
American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
National Institute for Conservation (US)
Museums Association (UK) includes
Resources A-Z
Heathcote, C. Exhibition handbook: a practical guide for organising
exhibitions in Australian museums, galleries, libraries
and community centres 1997
also in reserve and main collection 069.5 H439e
Heritage/History
National Trust (UK)
National Trust of Australia
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Australia ICOMOS
Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Inc. (AICCM).
The national organisation for conservators and people interested in the preservation of cultural material.
Other Curatorial sites
Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) seeks 'to reflect a culturally diverse spectrum of artistic practices, curatorial voices and critical perspectives in contemporary art through collaborations and commissions.
CultureWork: CultureWork: A Periodic Broadside for Arts and Culture Workers is an electronic publication of the University of Oregon Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy.
Its mission is to provide timely workplace-oriented information on culture, the arts, education, policy, and community.
CAMEO: Conservation & Art Material Encyclopedia Online
CAMEO is a searchable information center developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The MATERIALS database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
A drawing glossary
This website provides a detailed glossary of terms related to drawing, created by Edward Saywell as part of an internship with Harvard University Museums' Drawing Department.
MoMA - Conservation
includes
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Conserving a Modern Masterpiece
This website is all about the conservation of Pablo Picasso's painting 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (1907).
Conservation - Cezane and Pissarro 1865-1885
Unveiling Monet
Jackson Pollock: "No Chaos, Damn It" An Interview with Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator
Medieval mystery: who is the master of the embroidered foliage? from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
This "webliography" contains lots of useful links:
Museum studies: Online resources for students and practitioners, by Tom Caswell
C&RL News, July/August 2007,
Vol. 68, No. 7
Galleries
Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of
Art
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Uffizi, Florence
National Gallery,
London
Tate
Gallery
Yale University Art
Gallery
J. Paul Getty Museum and its Conservation Institute
....more listed in Art History Resources on the Web under
Museums and Galleries
Web resources mentioned in your course readings
Preservation society of Newport County, Rhode Island
Collections Council of Australia Collections plan 2006-2009
CAN (Collections Australia Network)
Key needs of collecting institutions
California State University, Fresno, Henry Madden Library
Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs, 1851-1940
Expomuseum
Recollections - the journal of the National Museum of Australia
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss (CRUMB), which includes new media discussion lists, interviews with new media curators such as Christiane Paul, and others.
ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karslruhe
Ars electronica, LinzHandbooks,
encyclopaedias and dictionaries
These should be your starting point for basic information and key references about your artist or topic.
A companion to museum studies, ed. Sharon Macdonald, 2006
069 M1358c main collection
CAMEO: Conservation & Art Material Encyclopedia Online
CAMEO is a searchable information center developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The MATERIALS database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
The two largest art encyclopedieas are:
Dictionary of art. 1996. 34 volumes.
(Grove)
Reference collection 703 T948d
Parts of this are available online via the research library at Artnet:
16,000 artists
biographies, 130 articles on materials and
techniques,
1000 articles on styles and
movements.
and
Encyclopedia of world art. 15 volumes. 1958.
Reference collection 703 E56
Materials & techniques in the decorative arts : an illustrated dictionary, ed. Lucy Trench. 2000
Reference collection 745.03 T792m
Looking at paintings : a guide to technical terms, D. W. Carr
701.1 C311l Main collection
Looking at prints, drawings and watercolours : a guide to technical terms,
P. Goldman, 2nd ed. 2006
760.014 G619l.2 Main collection
Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory.
1997.
Reference collection 703 P298a
Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms E.
Lucie-Smith, Edward 2003.
Reference collection 703 L937t .2
The concise Oxford dictionary
of art
terms, Michael
Clarke 2002.
Reference collection 703 C599c
Finding journal
articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies
Art
Art index. 1929/32-1998
Reference collection 705 A778
continued by
Art Abstracts 1984-
Interdisciplinary indexes and databases
Academic OneFile 1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large
proportion of which are full-text from more than
8000 journals, including many art journals.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all
subject areas, including art.
JSTOR includes full text of older issues of journals,
including:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, from their first issue until 3-5 years ago, so no good for current articles.
Periodicals index online
Periodicals Index Online is the new name for Periodicals Contents Index
- a database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Links to full text in PAO Periodicals archive online
Periodicals Archive Online - an
archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts etc.Many of the older journals are held either in the BSL or State
Library - check catalogues.
Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal
titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts,
cultural studies etc etc.
Not a great number of explicitly art titles but some useful ones
such as:
Modernism/modernity (1994-), Leonardo (2001-), Victorian studies
1999-
For Australian articles search
APA-FT: Australian public affairs - full text
Citations 1978- and full text for selected articles 1995
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
This database covers current events, business and popular culture with access to the full-text of some Australasian and international magazines, newspapers and some scholarly journals.
If you need newspaper coverage of art
exhibitions and news, use
Factiva, an index to Australian and international newspapers
with full text.
Bibliographies
The Victoria and Albert Museum : a bibliography and
exhibition chronology, 1852-1996, Elizabeth
James, 1998
708.2 V645v Main collection
Museums and museum architecture : a guide to recent literature,Teresa Anne Fehlig, 1990
Refernce Collection
720.5 V222 2324
Finding books in the library catalogue
Use these terms to either search the catalogue under the subject
heading option or use them as part of keyword searches:
Museum techniques--Exhibitions
Museums--History
Museums--Social aspects
Museum architecture
Art museums--Collection management
Collectors and collecting
Cultural industries--Marketing.
Art museums--Marketing
Art museums--Social aspects.
Art museums--Philosophy
Art--Exhibition techniques
Museum architecture
Art museum architecture
Art museums--Designs and plans
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