ARTstor

Description

The ARTstor Digital Archive Collection contains over 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data from notable art and architecture collections worldwide. The collection spans many times and cultures and encompasses architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Intended to support teaching and research in art history, architecture, the humanities, and related disciplines, ARTstor also includes the tools to actively access, manipulate, and deliver these images. Currently ARTstor is comprised of the following source collections: the Art History Survey Collection; the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; the Huntington Archive of Asian Art; the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive of murals and texts from Buddhist cave shrines in China; and the Smithsonian Native American Art and Culture collection. Upcoming collections will encompass women in America, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, the art and architecture of Islam, the image of the Black in Western Art, and more.

Leads to digital images and related catalog/curatorial data.

Searching Tips: Searchable by keyword and collection. Advanced search permits searching by creator, title, repository, subject, material, style or period, work type, culture, description, or technique, as well as combinations of these words and concepts. More help is available at the ARTstor Getting Started web site.

Dates Covered

Early antiquity to the present.

Print Counterpart

No print counterpart.

Related Databases

· Resources by Subject - Art & Art History

Access Notes

Off-Campus access to Library resources requires your NPCUID userid and password.

Persistent url's to this database

Right click on image in results page and select "Display image URL"
[Note: you must complete free registration to do this].

Download to EndNote

In order to directly export citations from ArtStor into EndNote, you will need
to save a filter file. Click on this link to save the ArtStor filter file. When prompted
what to do with the file, choose "Open with EndNote." In EndNote, go to the "File"
menu and choose "Save as." "C:\Program Files\EndNote X\Filters" and click
the Save button. Now you should be able to directly export from EndNote.

In ArtStor: Select images. Click on "Image groups." Select "Save selected images
as citations." Selet "View saved citations." Select "Directly export citations
into EndNote, Procite, or Reference Manager." Exports directly into EndNote.