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Asian Art Resources: Image Resources

This guide provides assistance with locating basic English-language resources for researching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art.

Recommended Image Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a digital image database containing over 1 million images. Images are grouped into collections and represent the canon of art history (as defined by major art history survey texts) as well as specialized collections such as the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection and the Huntington Archive of Asian Art.

MDID Online Visual Resources at Michigan State University
MDID Online Visual Resources at Michigan State University is an image database produced by the Visual Resources Library, Department of Art and Art History, MSU. It contains local and remote collections of images.

Recommended Web Sites

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
One of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art.
Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art
Part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC these museums have art objects from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Islamic world, the ancient Neat East, and ancient Egypt.

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Humanities Coordinator and Head, Art Library
Michigan State University
wilso398@msu.edu

Subjects: Architecture, Art & Art History, Clothing and Textiles, Philosophy, Western European Studies and Languages