Links to Mr. Gripenstraw's Anatomy and the Arts
Project
From the Chico High School Library
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Art | Poetry | Philosophy and Philosophers | Quotations
The following links were gathered to support research for Mr. Gripenstraw's Anatomy and the Arts Project, an assignment created for his Anatomy class, Spring 2001.
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Bookmarks
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- Quotations On the Web
The Quotations Page
Lots of quotations are available here, including the Quote of the
Day. Each day a quotation is selected and made available by the click of
your mouse. If you want more quotes, try the Random Quotations Page, which
chooses new quotes every time you load it.
Search
the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations contains more than 4,000
quotations on over 250 subjects.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Search the text of an older version of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Simpson’s Contemporary
Quotations
"Over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources; 25 categories and 60
sections ranging from “love” to “criminology.” Contains words of wit and
wisdom from such modern notables as Ezra Pound, Henry Kissinger, George
Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and Desmond Tutu."
Project Bartleby
Archive
Search here through texts of quotations books, and also search
books related to poetry, fiction and other writings from the past which
are freely available here in full text.
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- World's Best Poetry
A large collection of poetry, which can be searched by subject or poet name. CHS students only: ask libarian for password to use away from school.
Search The American
Verse Project
Search this poetry archive using key words, names or phrases, or
go to the list of poets and poems and scan the list.
Representative
Poetry Online
Excellent collection of the great poets of the English language,
courtesy of Ian Lancashire. Included is an extensive collection of criticism,
both in verse and prose forms. The works are indexed by poet, title, date,
keyword and first line.
Project Bartleby Verse
Archive
Search here through texts of many poetry collections and poetry
books, and also search books related to poetry, fiction and other writings
from the past which are freely available here in full text.
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An online set of resources related to the entire subject of philosophy, including biographies of the famous philosophers.
Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
Another place to find out about philosophy.
Philosophers
Page
Information about the philosophical ideas of many of the most famous
philosophers.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia has extensive information on philosophers and
their ideas. This online edition is based on a much earlier version, but
still has valuable information.
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- Artcyclopedia
Offers "a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives....have now indexed 700 leading arts sites, and offer more than 24,000 links directly to an estimated 80,000 works by 7,000 different artists." Search or browse by movement, medium, name of artist, nationality, etc.
Web Museum Famous
Paintings
A listing of links to famous paintings from throughout history.
Just a click or two is all that is needed in order to view a famous painting
by a famous painter.
The Web
Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions
of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and
1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies
of the significant artists are given." You can go directly to the Search
Page, where you may look for artists, their works, specify dates
and galleries or art forms if you like.
The Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco
The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the The Legion in Lincoln
Park comprise the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. These two museums
house a comprehensive, high quality art collection. Over 50% of their images
are available online.
Smithsonian American
Art Museum Collections and Exhibitions
Offers access to a growing digitized collection of over 11,000
items from the various galleries of the Smithsonian Institution. There
are three ways you can browse the online collection: by keyword searching,
by touring the digitized works or by selecting the subject categories listed
below.
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