Books on Set Design and Light Design
In NUsearch, use the Subject Heading search: theaters stage setting; set designers; stage lighting
Books with substantial photographic content will contain the subject category "pictorial works". You could, for example, find photographs of Ireland with the Subject Heading search: Ireland pictorial works.
Lighting
- Hemsley Lighting Programs - HomeHemsley's papers, including plots, are housed at the University Libraries in Madison Wisconsin:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-us0178an
Visual Resources
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowNew interface available at JSTOR Artstor.
Artstor is a digital image library that provides over 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from around the globe and across time periods. Included are images from international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. Register for free with the site to access its full range of services.
- THE BETTMANN ARCHIVEThe Bettmann Archive offers a wide range of imagery within world events, personalities, lifestyles, advertising art, art images.
- Motley Collection of Theatre & Costume Design5000 high-quality scanned images of costume and set designs from the Motley Collection at University of Illinois. The Motley group designed sets and costumes from 1932 to 1976 for plays by Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures. Their designs were used in productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, and in the United States on Broadway.
- Scenography: Theatre Institute Czech Republic15,000 stage and costume designs by 337 artists.
Scenographer
- ScenographerOne of the leading journals on stage design in Europe.
American eras/decades
In the Periodicals Room (1st floor), Reference Collection there are 2 encyclopedic sets that outline American eras (early American civiliations through 1899) and decades (1900-2009).
AMERICAN ERAS. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997-
Ref 973.8 A512
AMERICAN DECADES. Detroit: Gale Research 1996-
Ref 973.92 A512
Emotion search
The Tate Collection's website includes a feature for searching their online collection of artwork by emotion.
- Searching the Tate Collection by emotions, concepts and ideasThe Tate's search allows you to search for emotions and see works of art that communicate that emotion. This is an unusual and interesting feature.
