Resources in Art History for Graduate Students

Related Resources for Art History and Humanities Graduate Students

This page contains references to associations, job listings, a discussion of current professional issues in art history, and links to some art history departments. Some study break material is also enclosed.

Index

Basic Professional Resources

This is a modest collection of some basic information sources for Art History and Related Areas:

"Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age" Report on a Study Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This report is published by Rice University Press and CLIR.

The Art History Newsletter

Alternative Careers for Art Historians
Charles Rosenberg's great resource.

The Art History Research Centre A massive database that includes search engines, newsgroups, library catalogs, article indices, university web pages, and much more.

The Association for Art History Headquartered at Indiana University, this is open to students and professionals "who share a central concern with art and its history. It reaffirms the significance of art history as a rigorous humanist discipline that embraces scholarly and critical standards of the highest order." From the Statement of Purpose. Currently (2006) suspended.

Association of Art Historians "The Association was formed in the UK in 1974 to promote the study of art history. It represents the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline, including art, design, architecture, photography, film and other media, cultural studies, conservation and museum studies." From their Home Page. Also has links to some UK museums, the Times and other UK newspapers.

Tim Buckley

The Chronicle of Higher Education They seem to have a lot of jobs.

College Art Association Fewest jobs--apparently they are the most expensive place to post--but they are almost all full-time.

H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine. "H-Net is an interdisciplinary organization of volunteers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web." Includes discussions lists (their own and links to others); announcements of academic conferences, programs, fellowships, etc., a Teaching Project with course descriptions and syllabi, and an interesting Job Guide. [Actually, I keep posting their link and it keeps going away. I give up. Look 'em up]

HigherEdJobs.com They seem to have the most jobs, but they include lots of part-time positions.

Pippin Michelli's Site on Art History

Art History Graduate Programs

• University of California Los Angeles
• The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Indiana University Art History Association
• Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte Bern University.
• The Jewish Theological Seminary New York City. They have B.A. and M.A. programs in Jewish Art and Visual Culture.
• University of Notre Dame
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
• University of Toronto Fine Arts Department.
• York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Special Florida Art History Graduate Schools Spot

• University of Florida Offers the M.A. and Ph.D. in art history.
• Florida State University Department of Art History An excellent site, by the way. Offers the M.A. and Ph.D. in art history.

Assorted Non-Western Art History (and Related) Sites:

• Art and Life in Africa Online From the University of Iowa.
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning An online exhibition, curated by Benjamin C. Ray at the University of Virginia.
• Museum of Chinese in the Americas Caution: a huge site.
• Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Library Put together by Nixi Cura of the Institute of Fine Arts, this is a fine collection of information about, among other things, opportunities for graduate students in the areas of Asian Art.
• Black Moon A huge Web site devoted to Japanese art of all periods.
• Art Museum Network A just-begun Web site; placed here temporarily.
• Bill Viola In need of some self-hypnosis? Try this.
• The Amazing BeeCam Remember that Bees Session at CAA in NYC a few years ago? Who was that art historian dressed up as a beekeeper?
• Africam Cameras set up at two watering holes in two national parks in South African.
• Simpsonizeme
• Arts & Letters Daily Read this instead of writing that chapter tonight.
• Angry? But years of research have depressed your verbal creativity? Try the Irish Curse Generator. Check under "What's Nua."
• The Postmodernism generator Just keep hitting the "reload" button to get another meaningless collection of jargon. Perfect for studying for those exams on critical theory.
• Random Quote Generator
• Lee's Useless Super-Hero [sic] Generator
• The Surrealist Compliment Generator
• George Says...
• Need a dissertation topic? How about the art of Deliberately Concealed Garments?

For Your Mood in the Seminar

Bad Mood

• Rude Person? Get Off of My Cloud
• Paint It Black
• Vaffanculo"Lo sa che cosa e' vero in un mondo di bugiardi."
• Sympathy for the Devil
• God's Gonna Cut You Down

Good Mood

Buzzin' Fly
• I am Waiting

Some Life Outside of Graduate School

• Once I Was

Other Art History Sites of Interest, if Not Renumeration

• The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit. "Come, travel with me, as I guide you on a tour through the fabulous and vanishing ruins of my beloved Detroit."
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• Photos from "The B**bie Sessions by David Levinthal Describes a touring photograph exhibition. B**bie as fashion wench.
• B**bie Liberation
• More B**b**: B**bie Girl When you feel like dancing!
• B**bie in Gowns Dress up B**bie online.

  Please, what has happened to Dean Brown???

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• The Museum of Bad Art
• Why is Mona Lisa Smiling? Another Art History Mystery solved (or is it?)
• Golden State Museum Sacramento, California.
• The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum Includes live, web cam views from Cowell Beach.
• The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum San Jose, California.
• Victorian Preservation Association of Santa Clara Valley
• The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
• Art a GoGo An online art magazine from San Jose.
• The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
• The Kooks Museum And you thought you had problems.

Campaign 2008

"Don't vote--it only encourages them" : Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

"I can run the country or I can control Alice; I can't do both" : President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Good sites:

• The Political Graveyard : A Database of Historic Cemeteries "The Web site that tells where the Dead Politicians are Buried."
• Suggestion for more, please....

"Oh, How They Lied: No One's Hired a Specialist in Eskimo Architectural Theory to a Tenure-Track Position in the US in the Last Fifty Years!"

Or, another take on Alternative Careers for Art Historians

• Librarianship
• Stand-Up Comedy
• Law School
• Homesteader

Too Many Critical Issues? Relax with Art History Quicktime Movies

• The Piero Project Princeton University. N.B.: This is a new link to a "World Wide Web" version of this famous site.
• Pisa Looking towards the Church complex.
• Pisa Piazza dei Miracoli.
• Pisa Baptistery A model you can "open."
• Pisa Baptistery Inside.
• Pisa Cathedral Inside.
• Pisa Inside the Camposanto.
• Pisa Views of the Triumph of Death.
• The Colosseum, Rome
• The Forum of Rome
• The Pantheon.
• The crossing of St. Peter's
• Take a Tour of the Huntington Library Gardens
• Dangerous Beauty
• Once Upon a Classic
• Paint on Film
• Dancers
• Rainbow
• Fast Cars
• Movie Trailers Hours of fun.
• More Movie Trailers Film.com: trailers, reviews, new releases.
• The Velvet Underground

New Stuff: Not Going to Italy this Summer? Bring a Bit into Your Home.

• The 2007 Biennale di Venezia In English. Incredibly boring site.
• Marco Masini. Vaffanculo "Questa vita fa tutta da se'..."
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• Zucchero The Official Web Site.
• "La Vita e Bella" Benigni's latest movie.