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Collections of Asian art:

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Asia Society, New York
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cleveland Museum of Art
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo. Seattle Asian Art Museum Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art British Museum, London Musée Guimet, Paris
National Palace Museum, Taipei Palace Museum, Beijing Kyoto National Museum
Tokyo National Museum Nara National Museum National Museum of Korea, Seoul

 

Asian Historical Architecture, "a photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 5700 photos of 404 sites in fifteen countries, with extensive background information and 'virtual tours.'"

BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies. This site provides an introduction to several aspects of Buddhism, with sections entitled Basic Buddhism Guide; Buddhist Studies for Primary and Secondary Schools; Online Study Guide; Buddhist History and Culture; and The Buddhist World.

The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art. Especially valuable for its online exhibitions (not just of Buddhist art) and projects (including the following pages: Photographic Guide to Lost and Stolen Images of Afghanistan and Nepal; Buddhist Art of China; and an online searchable database of the images of the Huntington Archive).

National Museum of Asian Art Collections: the entire collection of the Freer and Sackler Galleries (the Asian art museums of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.) is available digitally. This page includes collection area overviews for arts of the Islamic world, Chinese art, Japanese art, Korean art, South Asian and Himalayan art, and Southeast Asian art.

Internet Guide for Chinese Studies is a guide to academic websites on China organized according to the Library of Congress classification system; it includes sections on Fine Arts, Literature, Philosophy/Religion, Geography, and Bibliography. Published by the China WWW Virtual Library and maintained at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands, with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies (Heidelberg University), the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation. Thanks to Reference Librarian Michael Hunter for alerting me to this resource.

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey of the University of Washington. This is a must-see for students of Chinese art history! Topics include Ancient Tombs, Buddhism, Calligraphy, Military Technology, Painting, Homes, Gardens, Clothing and Graphic Arts.

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900: How a Chinese Gongbi Silk Painting Was Made, a video posted by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that demonstrates the technique of painting with ink and color on silk.

MCLC Resource Center, maintained by Kirk A. Denton, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Two items under Bibliographies are especially useful. The first is the Image Archive, which includes links to art from 1911 to the present. The second is the Visual Arts bibliography, which includes sections on art in various periods and media, architecture and urban studies, photography, fashion, advertising and commercial culture, and electronic art, as well as links to museums, galleries, and artists' websites.

Chinese Propaganda Posters. Trace the political history of the People's Republic of China, from 1949 to the present, through the colorful posters produced there.

Digital Asia, a resource of the H-ASIA network. It includes links to various websites and databases focusing on Asian history, politics, cultures, languages, and societies.

The award-winning Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages, started and maintained by my old friends (Andrew Midkiff and Patrick Young) at the University of Michigan. A very good general source for all art historians.

Virtual Library Museums Pages, started by Jonathan Bowen. Want to know about the collections and special exhibitions of museums all over the world? Go here first and find their websites.

The HWS Library.

Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide, at the website for The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Refer to this when you need to put your citations in proper format for art history papers.

Canvas, the electronic course center for HWS, with a mirror site to this one (but with an online grade book and discussion board).

And, finally, ARTstor, an essential database of online images of art and architecture. You can search the digital library without creating an account by logging in using our institutional proxy.

 

Links last checked on 13 October 2022