Visual Resources (Central Eurasian Studies)

REFERENCE:

Oxford Art Online (online access to Grove Art Online [Grove Dictionary of Art] and other reference sources; requires IU login)

GLOBAL IMAGE ARCHIVES:

ArchNet: Images (images of Islamic architectural monuments)

ARTstor (550,000 images; requires IU log-in)

Asianart.com (many useful resources, including a list of associations, exhibitions [with links to online websites], articles, and galleries; "on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia")

DIDO: Digital Images Delivered Online (75,000 images encompassing the full breadth of art historical periods and media; from IU's School of Fine Arts)

Online Museum Resources on Asian Art (OMuRAA) (index to online Asian art collections, digital image libraries, special exhibitions, and related information; initiative of the Asia for Educators Program at Columbia University)

Smithsonian Institution (568,000 images, plus text and audiovisual materials)

Visual Information Access (VIA), Harvard University Library (electronic database of visual resources, including historic photographs and other images; search by keyword; full-sized images are restricted to Harvard users, but thumbnail images and other information are visible to all)

CENTRAL EURASIA & CAUCASUS:

Abdul Hamid II Collection (1,819 photographs, dating ca. 1880 to 1893, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid, r. 1876-1909; collection held by US Library of Congress)

Ernst Cohn-Wiener Collection (ArchNet) (a digital collection of hundreds of photographs taken 1924-1925 of architectural monuments in West Turkestan and supplemented by more recent photographs)

Images of Russia and the Caucasus Region 1929-1933 (over 700 images of Russia and the Caucasus region, particularly of rural areas in Georgia and Dagestan, taken by William O. Field; William O. Field Collection, American Geographical Society Library of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

Phototheca Afghanica: Historical Images of Afghanistan (archive currently contains approximately 350 digitized photographs from several small collections; a project of Stiftung Bibliotheca Afghanica, Switzerland)

Prokudrin-Gorskii Collection (2,607 photographic images of the vast Russian Empire--including Central Asia and the Caucasus--made between ca. 1905 and 1915; keyword search; collection held by US Library of Congress)

Turkestan Album (Turkestanskii Al’bom) (online copy of this famous work produced under Russian colonial rule, digitized from a copy held by the US Library of Congress; contains approximately 1,200 photographs, architectural plans, drawings, and maps)

SILK ROAD:

Digital Silk Road (content in Japanese and English, depending on the project; from the National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online (over 300,000 images of manuscripts, paintings, textiles, and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road)

Yale Silk Road Database (over 11,000 digitized photographs taken during summers 2006-2010; poorly constructed interface--"browse" collection by using the Search box in upper right)

MONGOLIA:

Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan (website for important 1995 museum exhibition organized by the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)

TIBET AND HIMALAYAS:

Himalayan Art Resources (excellent resource; HAR has cataloged over 50,000 images; large collection of useful links to Asian art-related websites)

Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950 (over 6000 photographs from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the British Museum, London)

Tibet from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library (includes early photographs of central Tibet and Lhasa taken by G. TS. Tsybikov and Ovshe Norzunov, Russian-Mongolian visitors to central Tibet in 1898-1901, as well as images from Harrison Forman's expeditions to northern Tibet in 1932-1937)

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