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Web Destinations

The following Web destinations provide information about and examples of the types of visuals described in this chapter.

Click on the Web Destinations Topic below:
Art | Advertising | Cartoons | Photo-journalism | Ancillary Graphics

Art
  • The Webmuseum Network
    The Webmuseum Network provides links to art from the world’s most famous museums. It also provides biographical and historical information about famous artists, movements, and genres.

  • The Virtual Museum Pages
    The Virtual Museum provides links to art museums around the world.

  • The British Museum
    This is the official website of the British Museum, in London, England.

  • Guggenheim
    This is the official website of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York.

  • The Louvre
    Link to the Louvre museum in Paris, France.

  • Metropolitan Museum Art
    The website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, New York.

  • Museum of Fine Arts
    The website of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • National Gallery
    The website of the National Gallery in London, England.

  • The Prado
    The website of the Prado museum, in Madrid, Spain.

  • The Rijksmuseum
    The website of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Uffizi Gallery
    The website of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy.

    Advertising

  • Adbusters Magazine
    Adbusters Magazine is a nonprofit journal that addresses the way commercial forces "erode our physical and cultural environments" and provides a critical analysis of the ways that ads influence our buying habits and culture.

  • Ads.com
    The new location of the popular advertising website adcritic.com.

  • ClickZ online advertising
    ClickZ provides information about trends in online advertising.

    Cartoons

  • Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonist Index
    A list of over a hundred editorial cartoonists with links to their cartoons, and personal websites. Cartoons are also listed by category, syndication, and date.

  • Cartoon Web
    Links to popular cartoons, editorial cartoonists, and pop art on the web.

  • The New Yorker Cartoon Archive
    The cartoon archive of The New Yorker, with thousands of cartoons linked by artist and subject matter.

    Photo-journalism

  • The New York Times
    The photo archives of the New York Times.

  • The Washington Post
    The photo archives of the Washington Post, featuring special "photo albums" on political and social topics.

  • TIME Magazine
    The photo archives of TIME Magazine, including special photo "essays" displayed in movie format.

    Ancillary Graphics

  • North Carolina State Cooperative Extension
    Provides a discussion on how to use graphics in your own papers.

  • Middlesex University, London
    Advice about using graphics and tables.

  • "Advocacy Graphics" Demonstration
    Professor Charles J. Goetz, University of Virginia’s Hartfield Professor of Law, discusses the ethical use of graphics.



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