Subject Guide for Art: Sculpture & Ceramics
Research Databases
Art Fulltext (1984+) International periodical coverage includes journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT NetID & Password required
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) International periodical coverage includes yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT Password required
ARTBibliographies Modern Indexes journal articles, exhibition catalogs and books. Includes all forms of contemporary art including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, textile art, and graphic design. UT NetID & Password required
Art Museum Image Gallery Over 155,000 superior quality images gathered from the collections of museums around the world. Covers a broad range of time and place including both decorative and fine arts. Many records include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views and related multimedia. UT NetID & Password required
Bibliography of the History of Art Indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. UT NetID & Password required
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times. UT NetID & Password required
Design and Applied Arts Index (1973+) Indexes design and craft journals and newspapers. Includes news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Covers all design fields including furniture, interiors, textile, graphic, multimedia, packaging, and theater. UT NetID & Password required
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus A comprehensive controlled vocabulary of nearly 125,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online Provides access to over 45,000 signed articles with over 22,000 image links. Provides extensive coverage of all visual arts from prehistoric times to present day with a multicultural scope. UT NetID & Password required
World Biographical Dictionary of Artists (International Artists Database) This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. Although the search interface and some of the search terms are available in English, the biographical full-text entries are in German only. UT NetID & Password required
General Resources
- American Style Magazine
- Ceramics Today
- Ceramics Web
- Clay Station Comprehensive resource for ceramic artists
- Italian Sculptures Covers early Middle Ages through modern sculptures
- Metal Art General resource for those working in metal
- Pottery Studio
- Sculptor.Org A Comprehensive resource for sculptors
Museums & Galleries
- African Sculpture African Studies Center
- Getty Research Institute
- Glass world Links to glass galleries and studios by state
- Museum of Modern Art Sculpture collections and exhibitions
- Sculpture Parks international directory
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Organizational Sites
- American Art Pottery Association
- American Ceramic Society
- Glass Art Society
- International Sculpture Center
- National Council On Education for the Ceramic Arts
- National Sculpture Society
- Sculptor.Org Job lists Includes residencies and grant opportunities
- Studio Potter

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Jennifer Benedetto Beals
Art & Architecture Librarian
JBeals@utk.edu
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27 March, 2008

