Arts

This multidisciplinary collection showcases research on all aspects of the Arts, a field encompassing an immense variety of human practices with creative expression and imagination at their core.

Expressed in a rich range of media and ways of doing, research in the Arts can include a focus on visual arts, such as filmmaking and photography, painting and sculpture to performing arts such as music, dance and theatre, and categories such as fashion and textiles, folk art and art criticism.

From common everyday practices, to skilled, institutionalised ones, arts have remained an essential feature of human life throughout the ages and across cultures and civilizations, conveying and cultivating social, cultural, and individual identities, experiences and ideas.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Modern and contemporary art
• Architectural design
• Art history
• Performing arts
• Visual arts
• Film, radio and television
• Music 

Discover the following collections related to arts:

• Art, Multiculturalism, and Mobility
• Digital Humanities
• Safeguarding Cultural Heritage

Collection advisors: Ruth Sargent Noyes (National Museum of Denmark, Denmark)