Reference Sources in the Arts & Humanities on the Web

 

ART

 

Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall. http://www.gatech.edu/desoto/graf

Presents vandalism (i.e., graffiti) as art.

 

The Butler Institute of American Art. http://www.butlerart.com/

The Youngstown, Ohio museum specializes in American painting. You can select works from an ample selection of thumbnail GIFs; all are accompanied by detailed notes.

 

DaliWeb. http://www.highwayone.com/dali/daliweb.html

A forum for the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, the site encourages the visitor to learn about Dali the man as well as Dali the artist.

 

The Krannert Art Museum. http://www.art.uiuc.edu/kam/

Offers a sampler of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagn collection. The holdings span over 4,000 years of human history from Asia, Africa, and the Near East to the Americas.

 

Leonardo da Vinci Museum. http://cellini.leonardo.net/museum/main.html

Not a physical museum, the site surveys the artist's life and body of work.

 

LACMAWeb: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. http://www.lacma.org/

In addition to online catalogs and information about hours and exhibitions, the site provides artist interviews and features regarding new acquisitions.

 

Mythopoeia. http://www.myth.com/mythopoeia/mythopoeia.html

An interactive art book created by photographer Suza Scalora, the site is divided into four provinces--the holy, the immortals, the fables, and the damned--comprised of photos as well as a list of stories inspired by these pictures.

 

Musee du Louvre. http://www.paris.org:80/Musees/Louvre/

Both a tourist guide and a visual guide to a sampling of the museum's treasures.

 

Ophelia's Mirror. http://www.teleport.com/~mabs/ophelia.html

A collection of late 19th century, pre-Raphaelite paintings.

 

Peabody Essex Museum. http://www.star.net/salem/pem/

Samples the holdings of the oldest continuously-operating museum in the U.S., founded in 1799.

 

The Rossetti Archive. http://jefferson.village.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html

Based at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, the site explores the potentialities of hypermedia to facilitate scholarly understanding.

 

Sito. http://www.sito.org/

An online gallery of experimental art organized by medium or by content.

 

Whitney Museum of American Art. http://mosaic.echnyc.com/~whitney/

Provides examples of the work housed in the New York City institution.

 

World Art Treasures. http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/

Thematic excerpts of the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation collection, which includes over 100,000 35mm slides concerned with the artist achievements of the world's great civilizations.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

 

British Gallery of Photographic Expression. http://www.demon.co.uk/the-place/home.html

Showcases a number of contemporary British photographers.

 

 California's High Sierra. http://matahari.tamu.edu/sierra

Features landscapes photographed by Ewen Bell.

 

A History of Photography. http://www.Kbnet.co.uk/rleggat/photo/

Surveys the development of photography from its beginnings up to 1920.

 

LIFE Virtual Gallery. http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/lifehome.html

Presents a varied array of exhibitions along with links to the best photography sites on the Web.

 

Photo Perspectives. http://www.i3tele.com/photo_perspectives_museum/faces/exhibitions.html

The New York-based curatorial production house employs photography to stimulate thought concerning contemporary social and environmental issues of note.

 

LITERATURE

 

221B Baker Street. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs.andrew.cmu.edu/usr18/mset/www/holmes.html

Includes all Holmes stories in the public domain in addition to JPEGs of illustrations from the original publications.

 

Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html

An diversified repository of online books and texts, ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary popular music lyrics.

 

Poet's Corner. http://www.lexmark.com/data/poem/poem.html

Spans the entire tradition of English poetry in alphabetical order (by author/song composer).

 

Project Gutenberg. http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/pg/

The site focuses on the creation of free digital versions of great literature no longer under copyright.

 

DANCE

 

The Dance Pages. http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~esouche/danse/dance.html

Provides a photo gallery and scholarly analysis of classical and modern ballet.

 

Dancing on a Line. http://www.cipsinc.com/dance/doal.html

This New York-based electronic magazine focuses on contemporary dance.

 

THEATRE

 

Aisle Say. http://www.escape.com/~theanet/AisleSay.html

Covers stage reviews and opinion from major cities across the U.S.

 

Playbill Online. http://wheat.symgrp.com/playbill/html/home.html

A Web version of the renown theatrical periodical, the site includes theatre news, international theatrical listings, a multimedia center, interviews, and a mechanism for purchasing tickets to plays.