Africana Studies: Art and Images

Contains 45,000 authoritative articles on all aspects of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography. Includes biographies of artists, patrons, and writers on art; info rmation on civilizations and cultures, towns and cities, styles and movements, art forms, materials and techniques.

Covers all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. Includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes), as well as the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion of Western Art, and many images.

Includes images of art by artists of the African Diaspora and Africa who have lived, worked, studied or exhibited in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Artists are eligible for inclusion when they have been actively and professionally engaged in the production of works of art for a period of at least 4 years and are at least 21 years old. As of August 2008, the databse included nearly 11,000 artists.

"The approximately 1,200 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery."

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

Images relating to African-American history from the 16th century to the present.

An extensive collection of digital images of Library of Congress collections including photos taken by Gordon Parks, the Carl Van Vechten Collection including Harlem Renaissance celebrities, images from the personal papers of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and more.

Browse more than 11,000 items ranging from prints and photographs to historical documents relating to African and African Diasporan history and cultures from the 17th to the 20th centuries.