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Art History

Research resources for Museum and Curatorial Studies courses and art history courses.

Online sources for background information

Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia entries, biographies, and bibliographies on art topics from Grove Dictionary of Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Oxford Companion to Western Art
Covers Western Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
A comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts.

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Renaissance and Reformation
Scholarly, annotated online bibliographies written and reviewed by scholars in the field.
Credo Reference
A starting point for research and learning that offers unlimited access to hundreds of full text reference books on every subject. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.

Reference eBooks

Here is an example of reference eBooks from our collection. These include dictionaries and encyclopedias.

The Oxford Dictionary of Art by Ian Chilvers (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
Publication Date: 2015
Benezit Dictionary of Artists by Editions Grund (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006

First English-language edition of the classic work of reference. Incomparable source of art-historical information. Revised and expanded for a wider audience. Over 170,000 entries.
Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts by Helicon
Publication Date: 2008
American Women in the Visual Arts by Carol Kort; Liz Sonneborn
Publication Date: 2015
Concise Dictionary of Women Artists by Delia Gaze (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture by Allison Palmer
Publication Date: 2011
Pre-Raphaelites by Robert De La Sizeranne
Publication Date: 2014
Historical Dictionary of Surrealism by Keith Aspley
Publication Date: 2010
A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes by Richard Kostelanetz
Publication Date: 2018
The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms by Michael Clarke
Publication Date: 2010

Print Encyclopedias for Art

A selection of Art titles include the following:

Contemporary Artists Shelves N6490 C6567
Dictionary of Women Artists Shelves N8354 D53 1997
Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain Shelves NX543 C36 9 vols.

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Subjects: Art

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