Arts
Information about the Arts is right at your fingertips through the following links:
Vogue Archive
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history - past, present and future - with the most recent issue added without embargo period because of Proquest's relationship with Condé Nast. Best of all, it's easy to search using simple and advanced search options to reveal results in all the captions, text and titles throughout the magazine, including advertisements, covers and fold-outs.
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Berg Fashion Library
The Berg Fashion Library offers comprehensive coverage (with integrated text and image content) on world dress and fashion throughout history. It includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a vast image bank, extra reference resources and more.
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Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online has more than 45,000 encyclopaedia-style articles on the visual arts, including more than 21,000 biographies of artists and craftsmen, and over 5,000 searchable art images, drawings and maps, with links to over 40,000 others. The content covers painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, photography and more. While it is particularly strong on European art up to the 20th century, other cultures, countries, and regions are represented from pre-history to today.
It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols), along with The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (1998, 4 vols).
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New Zealand Artists Database
This database is an index to material held in Wellington City Libraries on New Zealand artists. At present that means mainly painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed media and installation artists, but as the database is expanded craft artists, jewellers, potters and architects will gradually be included. The aim of the database is to be a useful resource for the general interested reader and students at secondary and tertiary levels. This means we have not indexed every passing reference to an artist, but have aimed to include articles that are of reasonable length and have good images. (Serious researchers can find extra material, including theses, on INNZ - Index New Zealand).
As well as articles in magazines and newspapers, you will be able to find which books hold material and/or images of artists and art works you are interested in.
Please note that entering all New Zealand artists and keeping entries up to date is a huge task, so if there is no entry on a particular artist it doesn't necessarily mean we hold no material on them. Please make enquiries from a librarian.
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Wellington City Libraries Arts page
Keep up with the latest arts & design books in our collections, as well as links to exhibitions and other happenings in the Arts. Popular Topics: Art
ProQuest Research Library
(Previously known as Academic Research Library)
Features a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers. Nearly 4,000 titles, over 2,800 in full text. Art related titles include African Arts, American Theatre, Antiques & Collecting Magazine, The Architectural Review, Asian Theatre Journal, British Journal of Aesthetics, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Ceramics, Art and Perception, Dance Teacher, Film Quarterly, Oxford Art Journal, Theatre Research International, and many more.
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Biography in Context
This comprehensive database contains biographical information on more than 185,000 people including artists and musicians from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas. It combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. You can search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
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Discovering Collection
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core topics of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies. Designed for the secondary school student, the Discovering Collection includes biographies, criticisms, overview essays and timeline entries, images/multimedia, and primary source documents. Text and criticism of Shakespeare's plays and poems is a feature.
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Internet Movie Database
This comprehensive database provides information on movies, directors, actors and what's happening in the film industry. There are links to reviews for most movies and extensive filmographies for many people.
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The Arts on EBSCO
There are a number of full text magazines covering art, architecture, design, dance, film, and theatre, available through the MasterFile Premier and Australia and NZ Reference Centre databases, including those listed below.
American Artist
Architectural Record
Architecture Australia
Art AsiaPacific
Art & Australia
Art in America
Art New Zealand
Computer Graphics World
Craft Arts International
Design Issues
Entertainment Weekly
Film Comment
Film History
Graphic Arts Monthly
Interior Design
Pottery Making Illustrated
Print
Variety
Clicking on the links above will take you directly to the holdings of each magazine - if you have not accessed the EBSCO website in the last 30 days you will need to login first.
