LibGuides: Visual Arts: General reference materials

Key Art Dictionaries

Encyclopedia of World Art
N31 E533
Art in World History
N72 H58A78 2012
The Art Atlas: Atlas of World Art
G1046 E64 O9 2008
The Book of Art: a Pictorial Encyclopedia of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
N31 B6 (1965)
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art
N7560 E54 (1998)
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
N8510 G76 (2008)
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Art
N6502 E53 (2000)
Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema
PN1993.5 I8E533 (2003)
Oxford Reference Online
Multi-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts.
The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophies
Oxford Art Online
Formerly Grove Art, this comprehensive online resource covers all aspects of the visual arts, from prehistory to the 1990s. It provides links to 41000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, with additional links to images and further information on musuem and other art-related websites.