Art Images & Copyright
Art images are the property of the copyright holder, who
may be the artist or an organisation. This applies to art
works on the Internet as well. Always contact the copyright
holder or image provider directly should you wish to
reproduce images for publication or for commercial use.
For more information on copyright, you can refer to:
Title: Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)
URL: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/
The IPOS formulates and administers intellectual property
(IP) laws, and promotes IP awareness in Singapore. For
general information on copyright, click on “About IP”, then
“Copyright - Introduction”.
Title: The Law of Copyright in Singapore
Author: Wei, George
Publisher: Singapore: Singapore National Printers, 2000.
Call no.: RSING 346.59570482 WEI
A guide to copyright legislation in Singapore. This book is
available for reference at the Lee Kong Chian Reference
Library.
Title: Art Resource
URL: http://www.artres.com/
Art Resource is a fine art stock photo archive, licensing
authorized images to all media. For general information on
copyright of digital art images, click on “About Us” then
“Copyright Information”.
Reference Services ResourceGuide
For more information or research services on the
Visual Arts, you may wish to contact the National
Art Images
Library Board through the following channels:
Reference Point
This is a remote enquiry service. Our librarians will
search both print and electronic resources to find
the information that you need.
T +65 6332 3255
F +65 6332 3248
Art images, or reproductions of artworks, can be found in
E ref@nlb.gov.sg (enquiry and appointment)
books, journals, electronic databases and on the Internet.
Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
This resource guide will assist you to navigate these
National Library Board
resources to find the art images you are looking for.
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Compiled by Roberta Balagopal
Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
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Disclaimer: The contents of this document include links to
other sites. As a user, you acknowledge that NLB has no
control over and makes no representations of any kind, either Screen shot of Grove Art Online
express or implied with respect to the contents on these sites Available via NLB’s Digital Library
and that you waive any claim against us with respect to such
sites.
The information contained in this booklet is correct as of April
2006.
All rights reserved. National Library Board 2006
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Art Images Digital Images Images on the Internet
What kinds of images are available? In the Lee Kong The Library subscribes to several databases that include There are many art image portals on the web, of varying
Chian Reference Library collection, we have print and art images. To access these, you must register as a scope and image quality. Notable museums and galleries
digital reproductions of paintings, prints, photographs of member of the Digital Library (www.nlb.gov.sg). All often host good web image collections, and there are
sculptures, buildings, art installations, designs of all sorts databases may be accessed from the Multimedia Stations various other portals that are useful sources for digital art
of artifacts, and stills of video and performance art. in the Library, and some may be accessed from any
images. Below are a few recommended websites:
Community or Regional Library, or from home.
Books and journals in the Arts collection contain many
colour and black and white reproductions. These can be CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Title: Artcyclopedia
found in works on specific artists, and in the sections CAMIO, RLG's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, URL: http://www.artcyclopedia.com
focusing on various types of art (eg painting, drawing, contains about 90,000 works of fine and decorative art This is an encyclopedia of noted artists and their works.
sculpture). The Library also collects auction and exhibition It provides links to galleries where the artist's works are
from leading museums around the world. The scope of the
catalogues from auction houses, galleries and museums. on display, pictures, websites and articles.
collection ranges from 3000 BCE to the present,
The following shelf areas are useful to browse for art representing premiere examples of Asian, African, Latin Title: Explore Art
images: American and Western art. Available at all Libraries. URL: http://www.getty.edu
Here you can browse many of the works of art on display
709 Art history Grove Art Online at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Click on “Art”, then
709.04 Modern and contemporary art Grove Art Online provides online access to the entire text “Explore Art.”
709.5 Asian art (China, India, and Japan) of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.)
720.92 Architects (photographs of buildings) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Title: Tate Online
730 Sculpture (photographs of sculptures) Brigstocke (2001). Both works are recognized as URL: http://www.tate.org.uk
738 Ceramics (photographs of ceramic arts) significant reference resources in the world of visual arts. This site contains images from the Tate Gallery's Modern
741 Drawings (including illustration and comics) art exhibitions and collections.
Articles are added and updated regularly. Includes access
746 Textile and fashion designs
to thousands of images from the Art Resource and
759 Paintings Title: V&A Museums
769.9 Prints Bridgeman Art Library image collections. Available at all
URL: http://images.vam.ac.uk
779 Photographs Libraries. You may search here for over 19,000 works and over
25,000 images from the V&A collections. The database
National Palace Museum (NPM) Online covers a wide range of objects, including ceramics,
Some reference works that are useful for browsing and Photo images and related description articles of the fashion, furniture, paintings, photographs, prints,
locating images are: collections at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, sculpture, and textiles.
Taiwan. Collections are classified into seven
Title: The Art Book categories: painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, Title: Web Gallery of Art
Publisher: London: Phaidon Press, 1994. bronze, Buddhist antiques, and rarities. The database URL: http://www.wga.hu
Call no.: RART 709.2203 ART is available in simplified English, Chinese, traditional The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and
This book is a visual dictionary of notable Western artists searchable database of European painting and sculpture
Chinese and Japanese. Available at all Libraries.
and artworks. from the 12th to mid-19th centuries.
Title: World Painting Index xreferplus Art
Title: Webmuseum
Author: Havlice, Patricia Pate Access the digitised versions of arts-related reference
URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
Publisher: Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2003. works, including the Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Thames
This site provides a free, online gallery of artworks, from
Call no.: RART 016.75 HAV & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers gothic to modern. It also has a section on Japanese art,
This index serves as a key to locating specific art images and The Bridgeman Art Library Archive (over 17,000 under the "Famous artworks" collection.
reproduced in books. images available). Available at all libraries and from home.