Databases & Online Resources

Please find below some art history related databases.
More useful resources can be found at
Digital Resources at the Centre for East Asian Studies.

Journals

•  Kokka
• Yomiuri Shimbun (1874 - 1980) via CrossAsia

Dissertations

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text

Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia

• CrossAsia

Bibliography Directories

• Digital Library from the Meiji Era
• Korean History
• Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

Image Databases

• Chogonka Scrolls
• Akira Kurosawa Archive
• ARTstor
  ARTstor collection: Asian Studies
• Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Collection of the Seattle Art Museum
• Digital Scrolling Paintings Project (database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format)
• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy
• Freer Gallery of Art, Japanese Illustrated Books, The Gerhard Pulverer Collection
• Harvard University, Petzold Scroll Collection
• HeidICON
• Kidai Shoran
• National Diet Library Digitized Contents
  Rare books and old materials of the National Diet Librabry in Japan (English version available)
• National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Museums, Japan
• prometheus - Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre
• Seattle Art Museum, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
• The Fitzwilliam Museum: Online Resourses
  The Fitzwilliam Museum: Online Resources: Making Art (Interactive, Flash 6 required)
  The Fitzwilliam Museum: Online Resources: Conserving Art (Interactive, Flash 6 required)
• The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection (Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden)
• Ukiyoe Caricatures, 1842 - 1905 (Universität Wien)
• Visual Cultures in East Asia: Images
  Visual Cultures in East Asia: Maps

Databases information system of the University Library

• Special field: Art history
• Collection: East Asia

Databases at the Institute for Chinese Studies

Link listings

• China Art Now, University of Alberta
  link list on contemporary Chinese Art, including exhibition archives, image archives, art galleries, artist homepages, weblogs, bibliography and online journals

Archives

• Asia Art Archive: Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990
  [in Chinese] [in English]

Other

• Hiroshige Research Website