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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

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.

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.

Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy documents the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. An incredible resource, this site includes object documentation and images for 82 paintings and three independent works of calligraphy.

James Cahill's Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368, first published in 1976 by Weatherhill, now out of print but available online at the Knowledge Bank at Ohio State University. This book is an essential resource on Yuan painting and crucial to understanding the painting of subsequent periods. NOTE: the link is to an 18 MB PDF file.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made the full text of many of its publications (journal issues, journal articles, art books, and exhibition catalogues) available online. For this class, the publications of the Asian Art Department on China will be most useful.

BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies, a site that 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, created and maintained by Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University. Especially valuable for its online exhibitions (including China: 5,000 Years) and projects (including the following pages: Buddhist Art of China; and --under construction--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.

East Asian Scroll Paintings, created and maintained by the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia. This invaluable resource provides high-resolution, scrolling digital images of Chinese and Japanese handscrolls. A bonus: the images are annotated.

Making a Chinese Gongbi Silk Painting, a video posted by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London that demonstrates the technique of painting with ink and color on silk.

H-Asia, an H-Net discussion list. The searchable discussion logs and Asian studies links may be useful in your research.

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.

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

Links last checked on 22 July 2024