Selected Resources in Art History

GUIDES TO RESEARCH AND WRITING

Art research methods and sources: a guide to finding art information. Lois Swan Jones. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 1990.
REF N85 J64 1984

Art information and the Internet : how to find it, how to use it. Lois Swan Jones. Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1999.
REF N59 J64 1999

A Short guide to writing about art. Sylvan Barnet. Boston: Little, Brown,1985.
N7476 B37 1985

SOURCES OF FACTUAL INFORMATION

Dictionary of art. Jane Turner, ed. 34 vol. N.Y.: McGraw Hill, 1996.
REF N31 D5 1996

Glossary of art, architecture, and design since 1945. John A. Walker. Boston: G.K.Hall, 1992.
REF N34 W34 1992

ArtSpeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords. Robert Atkins. N.Y.: Abbeville, 1990.
REF N6490 A87 1990

ArtSpoke: a guide to modern ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1848-1944. Robert Atkins. N.Y.: Abbeville, 1993.
REF N6447 A85 1993

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Art books: a basic bibliography of monographs on artists. . Wolfgang Freitag. N.Y.: Garland, 1985.
REF N40 F73 1985

Art books: a basic bibliography of monographs on artists. 2d ed. Wolfgang Freitag. N. Y.: Garland, 1997.
REF N40 F73 1997

Twentieth-century artists on art: An index to writings, statements, and interviews by artists architects, and designers. 2d ed. Jack S. Robertson. N.Y.: G.K.Hall, 1996.
REF NX456 R59 1996

DATABASES

Worldwide Books: exhibition catalogues and other books on art . Searchable database of catalogs and art books available, or formerly available, from Worldwide Books.
http://www.worldwide.com/

British Museum Compass Database: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/index.html

Access through library’s electronic resources page:

AMICO Library (Image library of art works from—mostly U.S.—art museums.)

Art Index. 1984- . (Art Index 1929-1984 is available on CD-ROM in the library reference area.)

Anthropological Literature .

ArtBibliographies Modern.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art.

DAAI: Designers International Index.