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Comprehensive 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. - Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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Current MLA style guide that provides guidelines on paper formatting, prose mechanics, quoting and paraphrasing, in-text references, and list of works cited.
The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms - ONLINE by ISBN: 9780199569922Publication Date: 2010-08-20With more than 1,700 entries, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms is an accessible and comprehensive A-Z guide covering a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including periods, styles, materials, well-known schools, techniques, and much more.
The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms - STACKS by 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 by 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 by Call Number: N40 B4713 2005 v.1ISBN: 2700030702Publication Date: 2006-06-01Incomparable source of art-historical information. Revised and expanded for a wider audience. Over 170,000 entries.
A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso by 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 by 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.
