fine arts

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fine arts

• Neill Vanhinsberg
• LIBR530

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fine art defined

• Fine art refers to arts that are "concerned with
  beauty or which appealed to taste. The term was
  first attested in 1767, as a translation from the
  French term beaux arts and designates a limited
  number of visual art forms, including painting,
  sculpture, architecture and printmaking. Schools,
  institutes, and other organizations still use the
  term to indicate a traditional perspective on the
  visual arts, often implying an association with
  classic or academic art.
• That fine art is seen as being distinct from
  applied arts is largely the result of an issue
  raised in Britain by the conflict between the
  followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement,
  including William Morris, and the early
  modernists, including Virginia Woolf and the
  Bloomsbury Group. The former sought to bring
  socialist principles to bear on the arts by
  including the more commonplace crafts of the
  masses within the realm of the arts, while the
  modernists sought to keep artistic endeavour
  exclusive, esoteric, and elitist.
• (SOED, 1991/ Wikipedia).
• Art produced or intended primarily for beauty
  rather than utility.
  
• Any of the art forms, such as sculpture,
  painting, or music, used to create such art.
  Often used in the plural.
  
• http//www.answers.com/topic/fine-art

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electronic resources

• Art Index 1984- (Wilson)
• Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984. (Wilson)
• ARTbibliographies modern 1974- (CSA)
• Artists in Canada mid 19th century- (Gov. of
  Canada)
  
• Bibliography of the history of art (BHA) 1978-
  (CSA)
  
• Design and Applied Arts Index 1973- (CSA)
• Index of Christian Art 1917- (Down)
• JSTOR

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bibliographies indexes

• Artsource http//www.ilpi.com/artsource/general.ht
  ml
  
• Guide to the literature of art history. Marmor
  Ross. N380 .M375 2005
  
• Art and architecture in Canada a bibliography
  and guide to the literature to 1981. Lerner
  Williamson. ZN6540 .L47 1991
  
• Art books a basic bibliography of monographs on
  artists. 1997. 2nd ed. Freitag, W.M. NY Garland
  Pub. ZN40 .F73 1997
  
• World painting index. Havlice, Patricia P. 1977.
  Metuchen, NJ Scarecrow Press. ND45 .H38 1977
  
• Sculpture index. Clapp, Jane. 1971. Metuchen, NJ
  Scarecrow Press. NB36 .C55
  

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dictionaries and encyclopedias

• ArtCyclopedia
• ArtLex - art dictionary
• A dictionary of Canadian artists. 1997. C.S.
  Macdonald N6548 .M28
  
• Grove Art Online
• Europe 1450 to 1789 Encyclopedia of the Early
  Modern World
  
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
• McGraw-Hill dictionary of art N33 .M23 1969
• Oxford Dictionaries of Byzantium, the
  Renaissance, Latinos and Latinas in the United
  States, and of the Reformation
  
• Benezit dictionary of artists. 2006. Benezit,
  E. et al. Paris Gründ. 14 volumes. N40 .B4613
  2006

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directories

• Yahoo http//dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Museums__Galleries
  __and_Centers/
  
• Fineart Online http//www.msstate.edu/Fineart_Onli
  ne/art-resources/
  
• American art directory. (annual) N9 A333
• Internationales Kunst-Adressbuch. International
  directory of arts. 1955-2007. N50 I6
  
• Directory of art and design faculties in
  colleges and universities, U.S. and Canada.
  1995/1996. N51 D57
  

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online journals

• Artforum http//www.artforum.com/
• Communications Arts http//www.commarts.com/
• Journal of Contemporary Art http//www.jca-online.
  com/
  
• Leonardo http//www.leonardo.info/

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journals

• Art Bulletin N1 .A4
• Art Criticism N1.A4 C74
• Art History N1.A78 H58
• Art Journal N81 .C6
• Border Crossings N1.A78 M35
• C Magazine International Contemporary Art N1
  .C1
  
• Camera Obscura PN1995.9.W6 C28
• Canadian Art N1.C35 A77
• Fuse Magazine N1 .C45
• INKS Cartoon Comic Art Studies
• Leonardo N1 .L456
• October NX1.O37 N48
• Oxford Art Journal N1.O9 A78
• Print Quarterly NE1.P74 Q827
• Representations AP4.R46 B47
• Rutgers Art Review N1.R88 A78

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image archives

• Artstor (via UBC Library)
• CAMIO (via UBC Library)
• Artchive http//www.artchive.com/
• Art Links on the World Wide Web (Boston College)
  http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_fram
  es.html
  
• Webmuseum, Paris http//www.ibiblio.org//wm/paint/
  
  
• Wikipedia Commons http//commons.wikimedia.org/wik
  i/CategoryPaintings
  

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museums

• Art Gallery of Ontario http//www.ago.net/
• Vancouver Art Gallery http//www.vanartgallery.bc
  .ca/home.cfm
  
• National Gallery of Canada http//national.gallery
  .ca/
  
• Glenbow Museum http//www.glenbow.org/
• Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
  http//www.metmuseum.org/
  
• Museum of Modern Art http//www.moma.org/
• Smithsonian Institution http//www.si.edu/
• The Andy Warhol Museum http//www.warhol.org/
• Whitney Museum of American Art http//www.whitney.
  org/
  
• The Guggenheim http//www.guggenheim.org/
• National Gallery London http//www.nationalgallery
  .org.uk/
  
• The Tate http//www.tate.org.uk/
• Louvre http//www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/

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websites

• Webmuseum, Paris http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/
• Virtual Library museums pages http//vlmp.museophi
  le.com/
  
• Virtual Museum of Canada http//www.virtualmuseum.
  ca/
  
• Timeline of Art History http//www.metmuseum.org/t
  oah/splash.htm
  
• The Gothic Cathedral http//www2.art.utah.edu/cath
  edral/index.html
  
• Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
  http//www.bildindex.de/
  
• Joconde Catalogue Des Collections Des Musees De
  France http//www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/jo
  conde/fr/pres.htm
  

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sources

• thanks to Vanessa Kam, Fine Arts librarian at the
  I.K. Barber Centre.
  
• images from wikipedia commons, webmuseum