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Subject Guide: Art History
Books
Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):
- A Short Guide to Writing About Art [REF] N 7476 .B37 2000
- A Companion to Aesthetics [REF] BH56 .C65 1992
- Atlas of World Art [REF] N 5305 .09 2004
- Dictionary of Art (Grove's) [REF] N31 .D5 1996
- Dictionary of Women Artists vols. 1 & 2 [REF] N8354 .D53 1997
- Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914 [REF] N6507 .E53 2000
- Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art [REF] N7560 .E53 1998
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques [REF] N8217.F28 G73 1996
- Encyclopedia of World Art [REF] N31 .E533 1968
- McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art [REF] N33 .M23 1969
- The Oxford Companion to Art [REF] N33 .O9 1970
- Oxford History of Western Art [REF] N5300 .O946 2000
- A Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Oriental Arts [REF] N7262 .P5 1969
- Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture [REF] NA200 .F63 1987
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To find additional related subject headings, scroll to the bottom of the Web catalog record OR consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (a set of red reference books located near the Reference Desk in McQuade Library).
Articles
Selected print indexes and periodicals:
- Art Index [REF] NX9 .A78 (November 1968- present) located in Reference Room.
- Fine Arts Periodicals: An International Directory of the Visual Arts [REF] N1.A1 R6 1991
Use Journal Finder to locate all print and electronic subscriptions of the McQuade Library.
Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:
Search these databases to find articles:
- Expanded
Academic ASAP (via INFOTRAC) provides citations and
some full text on a variety of subjects including art and
art history. Do a subject search for your artist, then select
the narrower subdivision criticism, interpretation, technique
etc.
- Academic
Search Premier (via EBSCOhost) provides citations
and some full text on a variety of subjects including art
and art history. Choose subject search from the toolbar at
the top of the screen. Enter your artist's name, e.g. Matisse,
Henri.
- JSTOR
is a searchable digital archive containing back-issues of
core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences,
and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly
journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most
recent 3 to 5 years of a journal are not included in this
archive.
- Project MUSE provides 100% full-text, online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed.
Web Sites
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online (AATO) contains more than 125,000 terms covering "fine art, architecture, decroative arts, archival materials, and material culture"
- Art History: A Preliminary Handbook by Robert J. Belton at Department of Fine Arts, Okanagan University College, this is an excellent primer to the novice student of the the arts and art history.
- Art History Resources On the Web from Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College, this is an useful portal to an exhaustive list of resources handily indexed by region and time period.
- Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages courtesy of the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History pages VOS is a terrific starting point for any humanities research and the art & art history resources are no exception.
- Art History Research Centre is a well organized and easy-to-use site from Concordia University.
- Virtual Library Museums Pages maintained by a Professor of Computing at a London university-no frills but many links by country.
- Art Images for College Teaching a free-use image resource for the educational community.
- Dictionary of Art Historians this database is designed to give researchers a beginning point to finding information on the background of major art historians of western art history.
- ArtLex art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
- The Thinker Imagebase from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco searchable image and text database of objects from the collections (110,000+ objects) of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
- Archives of American Art (The Smithsonian Institution) thirteen million documents about American visual arts from the 18th century to the 1950s and beyond can be found here. This is a great resource for starting research on American art history.
- AskArt: The Artists Bluebook extensive information about 30,000 American artists.
- Timeline of Art History "a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection."
Local Resources
Professional Organizations/Associations
- American Association of Museums
- College Art Association
- Society of Architectural Historians
- Internet Public Library Associations on the Net > Arts & Humanities > Fine Arts