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Art and Architecture: 
 A Research Guide

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 I.    Reference Sources

   Guides and Bibliographies:

Art & Architecture Thesaurus. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. [Ref. NX80 .A77 1994]

Art in the Modern Era: A Guide to Styles, Schools, & Movements. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2002. [Ref. N6490 .D415 2002]

Art: The World of Art, from Aboriginal to American Pop, Renaissance Masters to Postmodernism.Robert Belton, ed. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002. [Ref. N5300 +A696 2002].

Ehresmann, Donald L. Fine Arts: A Bibliographic Guide.
Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1975.
[Ref. N7425.E47]

Wayne, Kathryn M. Architecture Sourcebook. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1997. [Ref. NA2750 .A72 1997]

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    Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:

Curl, James Stevens. Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [Ref. NA31 .C86 1999]

The Dictionary of Art. Jane Turner, ed. New York : Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. 34 v. [Ref. N31 .D5 1996]

Dictionary of Women Artists. Delia Gaze, ed. London and Chicago. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,1997. 2 v.
[Ref. N8354 .+D53 1997]

The Elements of Design: A Practical Encyclopedia of the Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present. Noel Riley, ed. New York: Free Press, 2003. [Ref. NK750 +E48 2003].

Grove's Dictionary of Art Online
Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols., pre-history-present) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text.

The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Hugh Brigstocke, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [Ref. NA31 .C86 1999]

The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century. Munich; New York: Prestel, 2000. [Ref. N33 .+P74 2000]

Who's Who in American Art. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2000. [Ref. N6536 .W6 1999-2000].


 II.     Indexes and Abstracts:

To obtain citations to periodical articles, use one or more of the specialized indexes listed below:

AMICO
Art works from around the world contributed by the Art Museum Image Consortium. Spans artistic creation from 20,000 B.C. to the present, with art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.

Art Index-- v.12, 1959-61+ [Per.Z5937.A78]

ARTstor (Available at the Worcester Art Museum Library only.) ARTstor is a repository of thousands of digital images as well as text from over 400 scholarly journals related to Art.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art-- 1991+ [N1.+B52]  [RLG]

RILA (Repertoire International de la Litterature de l'Art)-- v. 1-15, 1975-1989 [N1.+R42]
"The International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA), published between 1975 and 1989, abstracts worldwide literature on Western art in all media from late antiquity (4th century) to the present."


 III.    Internet Resources:

Artcyclopedia

Art History Resources on the Web

The Art Source

Index of Pop Artists

Mother of All Art and Art History Link Page

Web Museum Paris Site on Impressionism.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



   
   
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
 
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