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East Asian Art History

A resource guide for researchers of East Asian art and art history, focusing on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials.

Welcome

Partial view of Album of Sketching from Life. By Shen Zhou. Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Album leaf; ink on paper. 13 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (34.8 × 27 cm). Taipei: National Palace Museum.

Guide Contents

This guide provides an overview of key resources in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) art history, from antiquity to the present. It introduces key East Asian art history holdings at NYU Libraries and provides strategies for accessing physical collections and digital resources, including e-books, image databases, and archives.

To find physical and online resources, please use the New York University Catalog Search. If the physical item you are looking for is unavailable through NYU Libraries, consult WorldCat, a global union catalog that provides access to library collections worldwide. Materials identified through WorldCat can often be requested via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

If you have any purchase requests for databases, books, or journals, please contact Annalise Welte <aow217@nyu.edu>. 

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