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Art History Research Guide

Contents:

Books
Reference Books
General Collection Books
- Ground Floor
- Folio - 3rd Floor
Electronic Resources
- Selected Databases
- Selected Websites

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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Electronic Resources

Databases - Periodical Indexes

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective

Current Contents Connect

Humanities Abstracts

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)

ARTstor Digital Library
(due to access problems, ARTstor is currently available on campus only)

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)

Lexis-Nexis

Lexis-Nexis off campus access

Project Muse (Significant fulltext coverage; citations and abstracts from 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.)

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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) As with any web resources found through general search engines, be sure to evaluate the quality of the information. Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources from UCLA College Library is one excellent guide to evaluating websites (http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm)

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Arts & Humanities links

Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3404)
Art History Resources, University of California, Santa Barbara

WebMuseum, Paris (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/)

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