Research Guides : Art
Reference (FS Access Only)
The
Oxford Dictionary of Art (via Oxford Reference Online Premium)
The Oxford Dictionary of Art is an excellent guide to the art of the Western
world. It provides a balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across
painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present.
The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (via Oxford Reference Online
Premium)
The dictionary serves as a guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the
present day. It is based on Oxford Dictionary of Art.
The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (via Oxford Reference Online Premium)
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms provides succinct and accessible explanations
of over 1,800 terms used in the wide variety of visual media.
A
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art (via Oxford Reference Online Premium)
A comprehensive dictionary ranging from Purism to Postmodernism.
The
Oxford Companion to Western Art (via Oxford Reference Online Premium)
Written by art historians and specialists, provides in-depth coverage of Western
Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms
and art terms
[ Location: Fairmont / REF N33 .O923 2001 ]
The
Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts
[ Available in netLibrary
]
Articles -- Full Text Databases (FS Access Only)
(Listed by database from which they may be accessed. Click here to go to the list of databases. )
Art
Full Text (via WilsonWeb)
*** Select 'Art (ART)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area' ***
Includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as
well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish,
Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions
of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing of periodicals
goes back to 1984.
ARTstor
ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections
of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to
enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content
will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
Grove
Art Online
A comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts
worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
JSTOR
Full text scholarly journal archive. Covers all subject areas, including art.
Project
Muse
Offers nearly 250 quality full-text journal titles covering the fields of
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.
St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (via GVRL )
Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written
by subject experts.
E-Books (FS Access Only )
Revealing
Art
[ Available in netLibrary
]
Video
Art : A Guided Tour
[ Available in netLibrary
]
Drawing
the Line: Art Therapy With the Difficult Client
[ Available in netLibrary
]
Web Sites
Art Images for
College Teaching
Pictures of significant works of art and architecture in the public domain.
[ http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html ]
ArtCyclopedia
Search for art from around the world.
[ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html ]
The American Museum of Photography
A virtual museum of photos from a range of time periods.
[ http://www.photography-museum.com/index.html ]
Librarian’s Index
to the Internet : Arts & Humanities
[ http://lii.org/search/file/artscraftshum ]
Virtual Library Museums
[ http://icom.museum/vlmp/ ]
Arts Over America
[ http://www.nasaa-arts.org/aoa/saadir.shtml ]
National
Association of Schools of Art & Design – List of Accredited Art
Schools
[ http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=Member+Lists ]
Print Books
Andy Warhol : prince of pop / Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
[ Location: Fairmont / Call Number: N6537 .W28 G74 2004 ]
Figure drawing : the structure, anatomy, and expressive design of human form
/ Nathan Goldstein
[ Location: Fairmont / Call Number: NC765.G64 2004 ]
Blanche Lazzell : the life and work of an American modernist / edited by
Robert Bridges, Kristina Olson, and Janet Snyder
[ Location: Fairmont / Call Number: N6537 .L3965 B53 2004 ]
American Modernism : graphic design 1920-1960 / R. Roger Remington with Lisa
Bodenstedt
[ Location: Fairmont / Call Number: NC998.5 .A1 R45 2003 ]
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