Art History Resource Guide
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This document provides resources for researching art history, including keywords, basic reference materials, databases, and online resources. It lists terms, artists, art movements, media, and objects that can be used as search keywords. Some key reference books are identified, as well as databases like Art Full Text, ArtBibliographies Modern, and Bibliography of the History of Art that index journals, books, and exhibition catalogues. Several frequently updated online resources are also listed, such as Artcyclopedia, Art History Resources on the Web, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, and the Web Gallery of Art.
Art History Resource Guide
- 1. Art History Resource Guide Keywords for searching: art history names for movements: expressionism artist names: gauguin media: sculpture terms: chiaroscuro objects: triptych subjects: holofernes Basic reference materials: • The Art Atlas N5300 .A77 2008 • Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites, G1046 .E64 S7 1994 and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and N33 .C59 2003 Artists • Critical Terms for Art History N34 .C75 2003 • From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art N33 .P5 2001 History • Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 Z5931 .M374 2005 • -Isms: Understanding Art N33 .L5 2004 • The Oxford Dictionary of Art N33 .O93 2004 • Thinking and Writing About Art History N380 .R438 2004 Databases: Art Full Text and Art Retrospective – Index to articles in journals ArtBibliographies Modern – Index to books, exhibition catalogues, and articles in journals covering 19th century to present
- 2. (BHA) Bibliography of the History of Art – Index to books, exhibition catalogues, and articles in journals covering late antiquity to present JSTOR – Scholarly journal access, with images from ARTstor Lexis Nexis – Current news articles Online: Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ An index of online museums and image archives. Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html Created by Professor of Art History Christopher Witcombe from Sweet Briar College and updated frequently. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ From the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Great for images and background information. Also links to current and past museum exhibitions. Mother of All Art & Art History Pages http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/ Sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Sites are grouped by subject. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System http://www.siris.si.edu/ Search the Smithsonian collections, databases, and libraries Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/index1.html Hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. An online searchable database of European painting from the 12th -19th centuries.