Art & Art History

Oxford Art Online

• 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day
• painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography
• contents:
  • Grove Art Online includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, Jane Turner, ed.: more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies and 500,000 bibliographical citations) contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries
  • The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Hugh Brigstocke, ed.: provides discriminating and reliable coverage of over 1,700 artists and their work
  • The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Michael Kelly, ed.: more than 600 articles by more than 500 globally recognized art historians, philosophers, and theorists on art, culture, and society
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Michael Clarke & Deborah Clarke, eds.: 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts

Art Information: Research Methods and Resources / Lois Swan Jones

• MILLS Reference (2nd floor) N 85 .J64 1990

Art Terms and Techniques / Ralph Mayer; Steven Sheehan, ed.

• MILLS Reference (2nd floor) N 33 .M37 1991

Artcyclopedia

• an online directory to information about artists

Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists / Sir Lawrence Gowing, gen. ed.

• MILLS Reference (2nd Floor) N40 .B535 2005

Biographical Index of Artists in Canada / Evelyn de R. McMann

• a guide to the biographies of nearly 8,800 artists in Canada from the seventeenth century to the present

Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art  / Ian Chilvers, John Glaves-Smith

• approximately 2000 entries about all aspects of modern and contemporary art including movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries

Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture / James Stevens Curl

• includes entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, from all periods of Western architectural history

Dictionary of Subject and Symbols in Art / James Hall

• MILLS Reference N 7560 .H34 1979b

Encyclopedia of American Folk Art / Gerard C. Wertkin, ed.; Lee Kogan, assoc. ed.

• entries contain basic information about the range of American visual art forms known as or associated with folk art

Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering and Construction / Joseph A. Wilkes, ed., Robert T. Packard, assoc. ed.

• MILLS Reference (2nd floor) NA 31 .E59 1988

The Encyclopedia of Sculpture / Antonia Boström, ed.

• MILLS Reference (2nd floor) NB 198 .E53 2004

International Dictionary of Art and Artists / James Vinson, ed.

• MILLS Reference (2nd floor) N 40 .I55 1990

North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary / Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller, eds.

• contains entries about female artists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Oxford Companion to the Photograph / Robin Lenman

• over 800 entries on photographers and other contributors to photography from the nineteenth century to the present

Oxford Dictionary of Art / Ian Chilvers

• searchable database of art-related information, focusing on information about artists, schools, periods, techniques, critical terms, major museums, art historians, and philosophers.