LibGuides: Art/Art History Subject Guide: Media

Use ARTstor

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
This database includes digital images of art and material culture from the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Illustrated Bartsch, the Mellon International Danhuang Archive (MIDA), the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection, and the Image Gallery, ARTstor`s own collection of images for the teaching of art history and other fields in the humanities and social sciences. This latter collection includes over 4,000 images in the Art History Survey Collection, images selected on the basis of a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts.

15,000 B.C.E.-present

Use the Google Art Project

Google Art Project
"The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a virtual tour of a museum and even build their own collections to share. Visitors can enjoy over 30 000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings and explore over 150 collections from 40 countries, all in one place."

Find Images Online

Google Image Search
Searches for images and offers results in thumbnail galleries. Refers researcher to the page on the web where the image is located.
Flickr
Photo management site allows you to link to other people's images and upload your own personal images. Flickr members are asked to refrain from saving, cutting and pasting, or using images offered by other community members.
Instagram
Search for images of locations or art works that have been taken by amateur photographers. Sometimes these may offer specialized views or context that would not be available from a professional photographer.

Find Streaming Films Online

Use the following library databases to find streaming videos of documentaries and other works. Options include keyword searching or browsing the collections by subject area.

Academic Video Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, history, business, counseling, dance, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian studies, film, opera, religion, theatre, and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Publishers include A&E, Bullfrog Films, HISTORY®, Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD™, 60 Minutes, PBS, BBC, Milestone Films and many more.

The films allow unlimited simultaneous access and can be watched from anywhere by all students, faculty, and staff. All videos have full public performance rights as long as groups do not charge admission for showing the film. The video platform allows users to create personal accounts to store playlists and clips and both clips and full titles can be embedded and linked through Learning Management Systems.

1882-present
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand combines our newest videos with many of our best-selling programs to provide you with an up-to-date, cross-curricular digital library that spans high school, advanced placement and college needs. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

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Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Streaming services providing access to 26,000 titles including documentaries, movies, and more.

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Find Films in the Library

Library Catalog

Finding Videos, CDs, Scores, etc. in the Library:

To find media items (videos, compact discs, LPs, audiocassettes, etc.) and printed music, use the Advanced Search option in the library catalog. Then, select one of the Limits features.

To find films, select "Video Collection" in the "Location" menu.
To find sound recordings, select "Music Recording" in the "Location" menu.
To find music scores, select "Stacks (Music Scores)" in the "Location" menu.

Upon including a term for a keyword, subject, title, or author search, click the "Submit" button. your results should be limited to items in these locations of the library