LibGuides: Art and Design: East Asian Art

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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Grove Art Online - the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Database comprises a wide array of reference materials including dictionaries, thesauri, and encyclopedia.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: East Asia
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Index to Ming Dynasty Chinese Paintings
A database containing over 9,000 records of Chinese artwork and artists from the Ming Dynasty.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of China by Mary Bagg (Editor)
Call Number: Reference 1st FL--Founders Library--Non-Circulating DS735.A2 B47 2009
ISBN: 9780977015948
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The five-volume resource covers environmental issues, global economics, online communications, and the latest political developments. While these volumes include many articles about Chinas earliest history going back 5,000 years and even further into the past, the Encyclopedia of China is focused on the events, concepts, and people that matter today.
Bibliography of reference works for Japanese studies by Fukuda, Naomi
Call Number: NIU--Main Collection--Founders Library DS806 .F858 1979
Publication Date: 1979
Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art by Hugo Münsterberg
Call Number: -Main Collection--Founders Library N7340 .M818 1981
ISBN: 0878172483
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Dictionary of Japanese Artists by Laurence P. Roberts
Call Number: Reference 1st FL--Founders Library--Non-Circulating N7358 .R6
ISBN: 0834801132
Publication Date: 1977-01-01
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan by Gen Itsaka (Editor); Edwin O. Reischauer (Editor); Shigeto Tsuru (Editor)
Call Number: Reference 1st FL--Founders Library--Non-Circulating DS805 .K633 1983
Publication Date: 1983-11-01
This nine-volume reference contains over 10,000 articles exploring every aspect of Japanese society, history, politics, economy, thought and culture.

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
The bibliography of Asian Studies contains over 410,000 records on all fields of study (especially the social sciences and the humanities) relating to East, South and Southeast Asia published worldwide since 1971. Up to 1991, citations to western-language periodical articles, individual monographs, chapters in edited volumes, anthologies, memorial works and conference proceedings. A listing of the 100 most important periodicals in Asian studies is provided. Browsing is available by region, country, subject, and journal title. Abstracts Only.

Asia Art Archive
One of the most comprehensive collections of primary and secondary source material on contemporary Asian art. The public can access over 27,000 titles, free of charge, in its collection and from its website.
Cultural Japan
A digital platform that connects collections related to Japanese culture published in museums and libraries from around the world.
OMuERAA
Online Museum EDUCATIONAL Resources in Asian Art catalogs visual materials available on the websites of museums and arts-related educational institutions; includes collections databases, digital image libraries, archived websites of special exhibitions, online presentations of focused collections, and websites for teaching with and about art.
Bamboo Canvas
An interactive platform of video links, podcasts, online lectures, or databases explaining art-making techniques of Asian art and design.
Japan Foundation Libraries
Develops its collection of books and other materials on Japan.
Ukiyo-e Search
Database and image similarity analysis engine with the ability to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints.

AIC: Arts of Asia
the Art Institute of Chicago's Asian collection includes 35,000 art and archaeological objects from China, India, Japan, Korea, the Near and Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Asian Art Museum San Francisco
Search or browse the online collection.
Harvard: Carter D. Holton Collection
More than 5,000 historical photos taken in Northwestern China between 1923-1949 by American missionary Rev. Carter D. Holton.
Historical Photographs of China
Based at the University of Bristol, the project locates, digitises, and publishes online photographs of China held, largely, in private hands outside the country.
Lafayette College: East Asia Image Collection (EAIC)
Open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides that documents the history of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52) and also includes images of Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria, and Indonesia.
Oregon Digital: e-Asia Digital Library
Collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources.
Smithsonian: National Museum of Asian Art
Search the online collections of renowned and iconic objects that originate from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, the ancient Near East, and the Islamic world.

SAAM: Asian American Art
Overview of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Asian American collection.
10 Japanese Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art
By Mika Maruyama for Artsy
What a Homeland Is: Six AAPI Artists from the Collection
From the Art Institute Chicago.
Asian American Arts Centre
Promotes and preserves Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities. The website archives past programs and exhibitions.