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Art reference works, including Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists, images, biographies, and scholarly articles. Grove Art: Access restricted to 8 users at a time. Try again later if you cannot access this resource. Benezit: Access restricted to 1 user at a time. Try again later if you cannot access this resource.
"[A] comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts—from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture."
Call Number: JFK Main Level Reference - N31 .D5 1996
Note: Also available electronically through Oxford Art Online.
Boasting well over 6,000 contributors from 12 countries, the Dictionary offers its readers authoritative and comprehensive global coverage. A resource for both art and cultural studies, the Dictionary serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, as well as the decorative arts.
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The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global - an important 'first' in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication.The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being 'a solution in search of a problem' when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Photography is an international cultural form, practice, and profession. Encompassing art, advertising, journalism, fashion, commercial, political, and everyday photography, the field of photography also includes chemical processes, mechanical inventions, equipment, industries, movements, techniques, terms and concepts. In addition, photography has a considerable presence in public forums of all kinds, such as museums, archives, galleries, and publications. The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography brings together this rich history in three volumes. It explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force.
Search by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements in these 2 indexes from the Getty Research Institute for articles and books from 1975-2007.
This site covers some basic art history definitions and provides links to various art sources. Links to a wide array of design schools are available, ranging from the culinary arts to fashion design, game design, graphic design, or multimedia, as well.
Information on writing museum catalog entries, museum title cards, an art history formal and stylistic analysis, iconography studies, etc., as well as information on taking notes and writing compare and contrast essays.