The Quick Guide to Visual Research
A Dramaturgical Resource

Visual research on a play might relate to any or all of the following categories:

Visual research sources available online:

Databases available through Cook Library at Towson University:

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO): embedded images and journal coverage for most academic areas of study.

Artstor: curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.

Biography Resource Center: this database of articles about notable indivdiuals often includes photographs and paintings of the featured people.

New York Times Historical: online full text from 1851-2001

Internet Image Collections:

Art on the web: database of over 1,200 links on art and architecture

Artcyclopedia: a guide to great art on the Internet

Artnet: searchable database and galleries of contemporary and historic visual art

Corbis: an extensive collection of rights-managed and royalty-free images

Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery: an image database containing over 20,000 works of art from its collections

Digital Librarian Images: a massive compilation of links to online galleries and archives

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room


The New York Public Library Digital Collection Online

Resources for the study of art history: links to other sites organized by historic period and by country.

Internet Image Search Engines:

Google™ Image Search

AltaVista® Image Search

Yahoo® Picture Gallery

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