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GERM 250: Metropolis Berlin (Schmitz-Burgard): Artists/ARTSTOR

The city of Berlin represents a microcosm of change and growth in European society yet maintains a unique identity. Its development from a royal city to the capital of a united Germany is examined through literature, film, art, and architecture.

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866 - 1944

ART Databases

Oxford Art Online
 

Provides full access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) and includes access to The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.  It is an integrated research database that provides biographical information as well as image links.  There is generally a bibliography found at the end of each passage for further exploration.

BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art
 

(1960 - present) Indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs.  Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present.

ARTstor Description

 

ARTstor is a versatile and ever expanding online database of images and descriptive data including art, architecture, archeology, and other visual culture images.  There are nearly 1 million images in ARTstor now.   Software tools promote active use of the digital images for study and presentations.

ARTstor Libguide