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Good Places to Start Finding Images
- Google ImagesGoogle Images is a good place to start finding images. However, be prepared to find images with no known author, or whose links disappear as websites are removed from the web.
- Found in Mom's BasementThe author of this blog scans and comments on older advertising images from magazines. Most of the images have some sort of attribution described by the author of the website.
Finding Images and Art through KU Libraries
- KU Library Image Collection• Collections by Subject--search for your image by the subject you are writing about, e.g. Literature
• KU collections--image collections owned by KU
• Luna Insight Collections--contains over 42,000 images to search and use
• All Collections A-Z--browse the all the image collections provide
• Images Helps and Tutorials
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowProvides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Available features include: searching, browsing, & organizing images; adding images; presenting images; and integrating with courseware. For detailed information about content and usage, see ARTstor Help and Tutorials. For professor account details, contact acqrs@ku.edu.
- ARTstor Help and TutorialsThis library course guide provides instructions for how to use the ARTstor database, including information on creating an account to access it.
- Associated Press This link opens in a new windowSearch Associated Press news photographs (restricted to 5 simultaneous users).
- Census of antique works of art and architecture known in the RenaissanceMore than 20,000 Renaissance Documents (inventories, guide books, lives of artists, archival documents, etc.) related to more than 10,000 Antique Monuments (sculptures, architecture, vases, etc.) that are accompanied by 30,000 photographs or illustrations.
- Index of Christian ArtContains over 20,000 work of art records which are accompanied by over sixty thousand images in color and black and white.
- Oxford Art OnlineAn encyclopedia of art based on The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text. Includes over 45,000 articles, cross references within the text, and over 40,000 links to art images in galleries and museums around the world.
Citing Sources
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- Citing in MLA formatClick on these links for information on citing the sources of your research in MLA or APA format. Click on the KU writing center logo below to go the KU Writing Center's homepage.
- Citing in APA formatFind out more about how to use APA citation and how to write in APA style by following this link.
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