PCC Library Celebrates ArtBeat Week

Each May we celebrate ArtBeat with a week of events recognizing artists of every description: poets, sculptors, writers, dancers, actors, mimes and others. The creations of these artists bring inspiration and beauty to our lives. Through extending our common visual language, they provide the opportunity to see familiar things in new ways.

PCC Library Art resources
This is a subject catalog search for Art resources available in the PCC Library. For further assistance in identifying, locating or borrowing materials, please consult a Librarian.

Selected Art databases

Grove's Dictionary Of Art Online
Contains 45,000 full-text articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day, and a wide variety of image files.

ARTstor
The ARTstor Library includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. Registration required to save any images for future reference and to use the site’s presentation tools. Off-campus access also requires users to register.

EBSCOhost Arts & Literature
Includes Academic Search, Communication & Mass Media, Fuente Academica (Spanish language), MasterFILE Premier, and MLA Bibliography databases.

Visual representations of Art

ArtCyclopedia
This resource provides searching options by artist, by artwork title, by medium, by subject, by museum, and by movements. Over 8,700 artists are listed and over 100,000 linked resources are available.

KartOO
KartOO is a search engine with a visual interface. Enter your search terms and KartOO will display your results as a web, allowing you to visualize how the concepts intersect. This is a great search engine for narrowing down a broad topic—take it for a spin today!

Oregon websites

Oregon Arts Commission
A commission with the mission of expanding and providing excellence in the arts in Oregon.

National websites

The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Over 150,000 works of modern art

National Gallery of Art
Well organized, lists works by artist, country and movement.