DXArts Guide: Sound Effects & Images

This page offers the top recommended resources for DXArts (Digital Arts and Experimental Media).

Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
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[UW restricted]
ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
You can browse ARTstor by classification including a Performing Arts (including performance art) classification.
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Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove's), Oxford Companion to Art, and other art resources.

Image Databases & Resources
Image databases available from the UW Libraries, and recommended image web sites arranged by subject content. Includes art and architecture resources.
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Some of the non-UW websites are subscription or fee-based.
Drama Library Costume Links
Links to costume resources arranged by category including historical resources, fashion designers, patterns, and accessories.

Sound Effects

Search the database by keyword for sound effects on CD and audio cassette. The collection includes sound effects from the BBC and from the Sound Ideas collection. The Sound Ideas collection includes effects from Warner Bros (Looney Toons), Hanna-Barbera (The Flintstones), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Disney, and LucasFilm as well as royalty free production music of all types.

Note: The actual sound affects are not online but are available at the Drama Library. Some of the resources are Library Use Only. You are able to copy the sound effects and music onto CDs, DVDs, and mini discs.

Cite Your Images

Image Citation
Use this guide for citing images