Online Reference Sources
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Full text general subject database of reference titles
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Oxford Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Concise and original introductions to a diverse range of subjects written by experts in the fields.
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Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowComprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. 5,000 thumbnail images are displayed in the text of articles with links to an additional 40,000 art images.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference sources
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Database of encyclopedia entries, with information in a variety of subjects and including brief biographies.
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OhioLINK Electronic Book Center This link opens in a new window
Thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences.
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedia spanning 25 different subject areas.
Select Print and Online Reference Sources
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MLA Handbook plus This link opens in a new window
Current MLA style guide that provides guidelines on paper formatting, prose mechanics, quoting and paraphrasing, in-text references, and list of works cited.
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The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms
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Call Number: N 33 C575 2010ISBN: 9780199569922Publication Date: 2010-08-20More than 1,700 entries, An accessible and comprehensive A-Z guide covering terms from the visual art world
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The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms
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Call Number: N34 .W55 2008ISBN: 9781854377500Publication Date: 2009-03-01From Abstract Expressionism and Body Art through Young British Artists (YBAs) and Group Zero, with hundreds of topics in between, every term, whether it be a theme, a movement, a medium, or a practice, is defined with clarity and precision. The entries are complemented by 50 illustrations. International in scope, and ranging in time from the dawn of Impressionism through to the internet age, this is the perfect companion for all those wanting to increase their understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. -
Yale dictionary of art and artists
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Call Number: N33 .L353 2000ISBN: 0300064586Publication Date: 2000-08-11This reference work deals with all aspects of Western art from 1300 to the present day. It provides information on painters, sculptors, and graphic artists, technical processes, terminology, theory, schools, movements, patrons and collecting, and much more. -
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
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Call Number: N40 B4713 2005ISBN: 2700030702Publication Date: 2006-06-01Incomparable source of art-historical information. Over 170,000 entries. -
A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso
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ISBN: 9780271051154Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. -
Periodization in the Art Historiographies of Central and Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9781032013848Publication Date: 2022-06-01This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization.
