Australian Art
Starting point contains definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information
than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
| Dictionary of Australian Artists Online | The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online is an open access scholarly reference work.You can search 7290 biographies by over 400 biographers, and watch for 490 new biographies currently in progress. |
| Artcyclopedia | Artist by nationality including Australian |
Use the catalogue
to search for more dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
You can search the Library Catalogue to find books, DVDs, journals and other materials
If you know the exact title in the New catalogue
- At the search screen select a Title search
- Type in the exact title. You can use double quotes around phrases, for example, “room with a view”
- Link to online material or take note of the collection, call number and status to find items in the Library
If you are searching for a topic in the New catalogue
- Type in keywords from your topic to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
For example,
+australia +sculpture
- Use + before a word to indicate that the word must be included
- Another way of doing this is to combine keywords with AND (the AND must be in upper case)
- If a keyword search gives you too many results, you could add another keyword with +
For example, +australia +sculpture +"site specific"
Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.
More information
- For more information select the catalogue Help button
Databases and journal articles for Australian Art
Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or
research reports
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Databases |
Notes |
Help |
| Art Bibliographies Modern | ARTbibliographies Modern provides abstracting and indexing of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The database covers the period from Impressionism in the late 19th century up to the most recent works and trends of the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present.Enter database notes | Help and tips are available from the CSA art Bibliographies Modern search screen and the CSA Quick guide. |
| Design and Applied Arts Index | In addition to the periodicals index, contains four directories: periodicals database, education database, organizations database, and museums/archives database | Help and tips are available from the CSA Design and Applied Arts Index search screen and the CSA Quick guide. |
| OzBiogs | This collection of databases provide a range of information about Australian art and artists. The databases comprise: NATSIVAD - biographical data on Australian Aboriginal visual artists; AustArt - Australian Art Journals Index featuring access to articles on Australian art and artists published in journals held by the College of Fine Arts Library at the University of New South Wal | Help is very limited |
| APAFT Australian public affairs full text | based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) providing indexing and selected full text access to Australian literature in business, health, social sciences and humanities | Help is available via the Informit Help link |
Complete list of Art databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list
Full text not available?
When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library
catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available
Database search tips
- Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
For example sculpture and materials
- Make a list of keywords for each concept
For example
site specific, installation
steel,bronze,wood, plastic
- Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or
NOT
Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
Combine different concepts with an AND
For example
site specific or installation
and
steel or wood
- Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of
a word, for example sculpt* finds sculpt,sculptor,sculpture and so on
For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library
It is important to critically evaluate all information you find particularly
information found on the web.
This is a starting list of internet sites. You may want to do your own searches
using
search engines
- Adelaide Projects Shows visual examples of public artworks around the city of Adelaide, South Australia
- ARTnews Provides extensive links to Australian galleries, art museums and visual arts organisations listed by state, plus indigenous art sites and general Australian visual art sites
- Australian Art Sales Digest A database of over 250,000 works by more than 8,000 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years.Access to the database of the Australian Art Sales Digest is by subscription
- PictureAustralia Is a database of Australian images held in libraries, galleries, museums, archives, universities and other agencies. Artworks can be found by artist's name, subject or title. Coordinated by the National Library of Australia
- VisualArts.Net.Au is a gateway to Australian visual arts and craft from the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA). Artist website listings, images of work, profiles of artists and case histories of the professional lives of various artists describing career highlights
- Craft Australia Incorporates the National Register of Craft Artists, featuring professional Australian craft and design practitioners
- Arts Law Centre of Australia Is a national legal centre. They give advice and information on contracts, copyright, insurance, defamation, business structures, employment and taxation to artists and arts organisations in all sectors of the cultural industry
- Queensland Arts Council Is part of the nation wide Arts Council of Australia network that was formed in NSW in 1946. QAC Branches provide a forum for expressing the artistic needs of regional communities
- Australian Copyright Council Is an independent non-profit organisation, to assist people who wish to understand more about copyright and to solve particular problems
- Arts SA Provides leadership in the strategic development of a strong and sustainable arts and cultural industry in South Australia
- Country Arts SA Oversees the development of the arts throughout country South Australia by increasing access and participation in the arts and by the development of performing and visual arts touring programs for country regions
- Craftsouth Centre for Contemporary Craft and Design is the major professional body serving the contemporary crafts industry in South Australia. It represents, develops and promotes South Australia's contemporary crafts industry with particular emphasis on the professional practitioner
- Helpmann Academy Is a partnership of all the tertiary arts training schools in South Australia and is focussed on training young people for professional careers in the arts
- Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) lists the current postal address, the name and title of the academic head, dean or director, and the prime telephone, fax, email and web addresses for the member schools of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools.
- Victorian College of the Arts Faculty of the VCA and Music (VCAM) brings together a wide range of creative disciplines including art, music, dance, theatre, production and film and television,
- Australian-Art-Gallery.com Aims to create a truely useful Australian Art portal to promote and assist Australian Artists, Australian Galleries and Australian Art in general
- Australian Women's Art Register An archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras
For further information about any of these resources please contact the
Ask the Library service or ask at the library desk
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