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Ethnic art

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About.com: Chinese Culture: Offers original articles and features about Chinese culture, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include architecture, calligraphy, cities and provinces, embassies, Feng Shui, festivals, folk arts and crafts, food, games, history, languages, literature, martial arts, medicine, films, news and media, novels, opera, painting, philosophy, poetry and sport.
Author: About.com
Subjects: chinese culture, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 305.8951
Resource type: documents, forum, images, index, news
African Crafts Online: Showcases the work of craftspeople, designers, and shops which feature the arts and crafts of Africa. Biographical information, photographs, and descriptions of work are available for each artist, and a collection of articles provides information on glass bead making, strip cloth weaving, Kente motifs and warps, and Malinke motifs. Contains lesson plans for cotton spinning, weaving, and loom construction.
Author: Nash, Jonathan
Subjects: african studies, artists, crafts, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 745
Resource type: documents, images
Araldo de Luca: Photographic Archive of Works of Art: Over 70,000 images of historical objects, artefacts and art works mainly pertaining to antiquity and religion and mostly from Europe, North Africa and Central Asia. Taken by award-winning photographer Araldo de Luca during major photographic campaigns to document issues in those regions. Lightboxes can be created to store selected images and details of the objects and images are provided. Can be searched in Italian, Spanish or English.
Author: Araldo de Luca
Subjects: art research, ethnic art, history of art, religious art
DeweyClass: 709
Resource type: image collection
Art Index: A Guide to Asian Art on the Internet: Includes information on galleries and art dealers, forthcoming exhibitions and lectures, museums and auction houses.
Author: Silverman, David
Subjects: asian studies, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 700
Resource type: index, news
Artnoir: Monthly exploration of the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro-Latin America including Brazil and Polynesia. Links to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and a directory of national fine art.
Author: Wesport Foundation and Gallery
Subjects: african americans, art exhibitions, brazil, caribbean, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 700
Resource type: magazine
Cave of Lascaux: Examples of prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, France, viewable using the mouse as a flashlight. Provides information about the discovery of the cave art work in 1940, its deterioration in 1955, and the subsequent closure of the cave in 1963. Also includes details of painting and engraving techniques, dating methods, and information necessary to plan a visit to Lascaux. Available in English, French, German and Spanish.
Author: Ministry of Culture and Communication
Subjects: ethnic art, european archaeology, french history, painting
DeweyClass: 936.4
Resource type: documents, images
Forum of Mexican Culture: Includes sections on literature, arts, dance, museums, and anthropology. Also looks at the cultural centres of Mexico, and at the history of the country. Information is in Spanish
Author: Alonso, Manuel Zavala
Subjects: anthropology, dance, ethnic art, mexico
DeweyClass: 305.8
Resource type: index
Glory of Chinese Printing: Array of traditional Chinese artwork which traces the history and development of printing techniques. Focusing on the ancient period, the resource provides information on standardised characters, carving skills, and seals. Examples of prints from various Dynasties including Tang, Yuan, Ming, and Qing are presented.
Author: Chinese Graphic Arts Net
Subjects: china, ethnic art, history of art
DeweyClass: 769
Resource type: documents, images
HELIX: Higher Education Library Image eXchange: A collection of over 52,000 images which are free for educational use by the UK higher education community. The collection comprises images of textiles, paintings, ceramics, metalwork, Chinese and Japanese art, Indian art, furniture, glass, photography, sculpture, costume, theatre and manuscripts, Picture Post magazine images (covering social history in Britain from 1938 to 1957), six areas of British history (the Irish troubles, history of sport, women's history, development of the mass media, UK politicians and Labour history), with editorial input from academics, journalists and archivists, and images from the James Valentine collection (a postcard archive of photography over the past 100 years), plus items from the George Cowie and Robert Adam photographic collections.
Author: eLib
Subjects: british history from 1800, computer graphics, ethnic art, media studies, northern ireland, photographs, political history, pottery, sculpture, textiles
DeweyClass: 080
Resource type: image collection
Mythology in Western Art: Project aiming to create a collection of art images of mythical characters. Project prepared in University of Haifa Library. Includes images of mythical characters, a bibliography of classic mythology in western art, and links to other Internet sources on mythology.
Author: University of Haifa
Subjects: ethnic art, folklore, mythology
DeweyClass: 398
Resource type: image collection
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996: Material from two American Folklife Centre collections that explore America's quilting traditions, including photos and recorded interviews with quiltmakers. Users can search the collections by keyword, browse by quiltmaker or subject, or browse galleries of photos and sound recordings directly.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: ethnic art, textiles, united states history from 1900
DeweyClass: 746.46
Resource type: image collection, sound collection
Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World: A collection of ukiyo-e posters from Japan. Many prints by artists like Utamaro and Sharaku were posters, advertising theatre performances and brothels, or idol portraits of popular actors and beautiful teahouse girls.
Author: Johansson, Hans Olof
Subjects: ethnic art, graphic design, japan
DeweyClass: 769.5
Resource type: images
World Art Treasures: The principal purpose of World Art Treasures is to promulgate the discovery and love of art. Thanks to the 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, devoted to art, and including the civilizations of Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose is to offer a different approach to art via the World Wide Web.
Author: Jacques Edouard Berger Foundation
Subjects: art exhibitions, egyptian history, ethnic art
DeweyClass: 708
Resource type: image collection