Research Guides: ARTEDUC 6998: Online MA in Art Education: Finding and Using Images

Citing Images

Some sites, like Artstor, will generate URL's for specific images as well for inclusion in your citations. On Artstor's site, you'll find a listing of standard formats for image citations.

Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper, Political Self-Portrait #1 (Sex), 1979, Sculpture and installations. Image Source: Artstor.

Research Databases for Images

Ellen Knudson, Wild Girls Redux: An Operator's Manual, Artist's book. Image Source: Artstor.

Artstor
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users. **To use all the functions of Artstor, you will need to create a free account.**
Oxford Art Online - Image Search
Contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Topics include, artist biographies, patrons, writers, cultures, countries, towns, styles, movements, theories, subject matters, iconography and more. Access to over 100,000 art images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Links to images elsewhere on the web.
WikiArt
WikiArt is an open access database of high quality images of artwork, many of which are in the public domain. Those that are not in the public domain are of a lower image quality, and cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes.

Copyright Guidelines for Using Images

Did you know? The images and other media you find online are most likely protected by copyright, regardless of whether any copyright statement is displayed. Copyright protection applies instantly and automatically when a new work is created; no copyright notice or registration is required!

Learn more about using images legally from this guide: Using Images: Copyright Guidelines for the Use of Images in Education

Copyright Resources

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series, 1978, Exhibited in New York, 1988, photograph. Source: Artstor.