Fine and Performing Arts

Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language, with over 190,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates.  Entries are clear and concise, and Benezit contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies. In addition to its outstanding scope and depth, two features in particular make Benezit unique among art reference works: its superb coverage of obscure artists and the inclusion of images of artists' signatures, monograms, and stamps.

Silent Film Online launches with 300 streaming online titles and will more than double in size by completion. Together, these films represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated by Alexander Street’s editors and Video Advisory Board, the collection covers silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. It includes the most complete, authoritative versions of the highest quality from leading distributors such as Kino Lorber, Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, and Image Entertainment.

Art and Architecture in Video spans period and region, including coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.

The acclaimed Oxford History of Western Music offers an unmatched narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. This landmark study has received universal acclaim and major awards in the field, and it is now being offered for the first time in an interactive digital format.