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Getting Started - Art Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias are great tools for gaining background information, putting your topic in context and identifying key terms, people and core resources. In addition to those above, you can search the catalog for your topic and add the word encyclopedias, for example: art encyclopedias.
- Oxford Art Online (8 users) This link opens in a new window Extensive surveys and in-depth, signed full-text articles on the history of art written by noted scholars.Includes: Grove Art Online; Benezit Dictionary of Artists; Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms; The Oxford Companion to Western Art
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new windowOnline edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, covering all subjects.
- Oxford Reference Online (5 users) This link opens in a new window Art & Architecture dictionaries and encyclopedias. •Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art •The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art TermsIncludes:•A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art•A Dictionary of Modern Design •The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History This link opens in a new window Expert recommendations on the best works available in each discipline; from a chapter, a book, a journal article, a website, an archive, or data set. Each article includes an introduction written by a top scholar in the field. Covers the theory, method, and the history of the study of art history.
- Artists of the World Online This link opens in a new window This database contains the world's most current, reliable, and extensive reference work on artists. It has authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1.2 million artists - more than any other database in the world. It covers all genres of fine arts, painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, photography, video, installation art, and much more.
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (1975 - ) This link opens in a new window Indexes any print product that includes biographical information on individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. The total number of biographical sketches indexed by BGMI is now more than 16.9 million.
- Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism This link opens in a new window An exclusive digital resource presenting the first comprehensive and systematic overview of one of the most influential and enduring 20th-century art movements, from its beginnings to the present day.
- African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD) Open access resource from scholars at Tufts University. Provides biographical information, exhibition records, public collections, and select bibliography for each artist.
- Getty Vocabularies Getty Vocabularies contain a growing structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture to be used by catalogers and researchers to enhance access to databases and Web sites.
Art books : a basic bibliography of monographs on artists by Call Number: Art Reference Z5938 .F73 1997ISBN: 0824033264This work contains monographs, catalogue raisonnes, and exhibition catalogues for each artist listed.
Art in theory 1648-1815 : an anthology of changing ideas by Call Number: Art Gen N6420 .A78 2000
Art in theory, 1815-1900 : an anthology of changing ideas by Call Number: Art General N6450 .A779 1998ISBN: 0631200657
Art in theory, 1900-2000 : an anthology of changing ideas by Call Number: Art General N6490 .A7283 2003ISBN: 0631227075
Artist's handbook of materials and techniquesCall Number: Art Reference ND1500 M3 1991
Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 by Call Number: Art Reference Z5931 .M374 2005ISBN: 0838908780No online equivalent. Comprehensive guide to research in art history.
Modern arts criticism : a biographical and critical guide to painters, sculptors, photographers and architects from the beginning of the modern era to the present by Call Number: Art Reference N6489 M63 v. 1-4