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History of Art II: Media

Media Resources

These resources provide access to still images and streaming content.

 

Films on Demand

Provides instant access to over 5,500 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. You can watch these videos on any computer with high-speed Internet access. Create a personal FoD user ID to save playlists with your favorite videos and video segments.

Kanopy

Kanopy offers video streaming for thousands of films covering a wide array of subjects across the disciplines. The collection includes educational documentaries, feature films, and interviews from over 900 producers and filmmakers, including Criterion, Green Planet Films, Psychotherapy.net, BBCActive, DEFA Film Library, and Kino Lorber.

Alexander Street Videos

Includes biographies, profiles of contemporary artists and architects, interviews, surveys of art history, aesthetics, theory, and criticism. Training videos can be located on the main page toward the bottom of the page: How to make a clip, how to create a playlist, tips on how to search, using the video player, and using the audio player.

ImageQuest

Access to more than two million images from some of the best collections in the world, including DK Images, Getty Images, the National Geographic Society, Oxford Scientific, and other leading sources.

British Library Flickr Commons

Browse The British Library's Flickr collection of millions of public domain images. Exploration and re-use of the images is encouraged.

Britannica Online Encyclopedia - Media Collection

Thousands of images and video resources are included in this well-known encyclopedia.

Google Images

Training Tutorials

Films on Demand

Kanopy

Image Quest

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