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Art History Research Guide
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Books
McCain Library has a wide range of books about the arts and related subjects. To find them, search SOPHIA. Try a subject search for the following subject headings:
- Art - Browse the list of subject headings; click Related Subjects to explore other subject areas.
- Artists
- Arts
Note: Although many art books are located on Ground Floor, a large number are located on Folio - 3rd Floor.
Reference Books
Dictionary of Art edited by
Jane Turner. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
Ref. N31 .D56 1996 vols. 1 – 34.
Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill
1959, 1987.
Ref. N31 .E4833 vols. 1 – 17.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art,
edited by Bernard S. Myers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
Ref. N33 .M23 vols. 1 – 5.
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art.
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
Ref. N33 .P68 vols. 1 – 5.
Artist Biographies Master Index
edited by Barbara McNeil. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1986.
Ref. N40 .A78 1986
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of
Art Terms by Edward Lucie-Smith. New York: Thames & Hudson,
2004.
Ref. N33 .L75 2004
Browse the Reference Collection in the N call # area for additional dictionaries, encyclopedias and biography resources.
General Collection Books
Ground Floor
Art history, an Anthology of Modern
Criticism edited by Wylie Sypher. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith,
1975.
N5303 .S96 1975
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
edited by Donald Preziosi. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press,
1998.
N7480 .A79 1998
The Arts and Man by Raymond
S. Stites. New York: London Whittlesey House; McGraw-Hill, 1940.
N5300 .S9
Critical Perspectives on Art History
edited by John C. McEnroe and Deborah F. Pokinski. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.
N90 .C75 2002
Looking In: The Art of Viewing
by Mieke Bal. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2001.
N61 .B35 2001
Folio - 3rd Floor
Art and Civilization by Bernard
S. Myers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
N5300 .M94 1967
The Enjoyment of Art in America
by Regina Shoolman. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company,
1942.
N5300 .S467
Essays in the History of Art Presented
to Rudolf Wittkower edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard
and Milton J. Lewine. London: Phaidon, 1967.
N5303 .E7
The Golden Encyclopedia of Art
by Eleanor C. Munro. New York: Golden Press, 1961.
N5300 .M865
History of Art; A Survey of the Major
Visual Arts by H. W. Janson. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall
New York, Abrams 1962.
N5300 .J3
Electronic Resources
Databases - Periodical Indexes
Art
Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective 
Databases - Reference
Arts
of the United States 
(over 4000 images of works important to the study of the history of art
in the United States)
Biography
Reference Bank (Wilson)
Biography
Resource Center (Gale)
Grove
Dictionary of Art
(Full-text, with images. Note: images may vary between the print &
online versions)
Databases - Full-Text Journals & News
Art History
Available in full text in the databases Academic
Search Complete
and Research
Library
JSTOR
(Full-text,
with images. articles published "a few" years ago based on the
JSTOR
Moving Wall for each journal)
Project
Muse (Significant
fulltext coverage; citations and abstracts from 300 high quality humanities,
arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.)
Websites
With any web resources found through general search engines, be sure to evaluate the quality of the information. Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond by Esther Grassian at the UCLA Library is one excellent guide to evaluating websites.
SKS
WebSelect
is a GALILEO database of Internet resources providing access to quality
Web sites on almost any subject. Includes categories for Architecture
& Design and Visual Arts; many sites with images.
Art
History Resources (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
Compiled by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College
History of
Art Virtual Library (http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib)
CHart - Computers and History of Art Group
Google Image Search (http://www.google.com/imghp)
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Arts & Humanities links
Timeline
of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art
Resource
fine art stock photo archive, licensing authorized images to all media.
ArtServe
Hosted by the Australian National University, this site provides "offers
access to around 80,000 images - i.e. some 23Gb of data - all concerned
in some way with the history of art and architecture. It is keyword searchable.
Bridgeman Art Library
represents museums, galleries and artists throughout the world by providing
a central source of fine art for image users.
Web Gallery of Art
http://www.wga.hu/index.html
"The Web Gallery of Art presents 3500+ digital reproductions of European
paintings and sculptures created between the years 1200 and 1700. A considerable
part of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant
artists are given."
Yahoo!
Artists
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Artists/Masters/
Lists contemporary artists' homepages; subdivided into architects, painters,
photographers, printmakers, sculptors.
Guides for finding Images
Finding
Images on the Web
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages