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Grove Art Online
Updated full text of The Dictionary of Art (34 vols., 1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001), with images and line drawings from the text of articles and extensive external image links. (Updated continuously, Oxford University Press)
Art & Architecture - Oxford Reference Collection
Searches simultaneously in multiple titles grouped under Art & Architecture in Oxford Reference Online.
Biography Resource Center
Biographical articles on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all subject areas from multiple Gale reference publications, such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, and Directory of American Scholars. (Updated continuously, Gale)
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Abridged version of the Oxford Dictionary of Art, an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day. (3rd ed., 2003, Oxford Reference Online)
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Explains terms used in the art world, including periods and styles throughout art history, materials, techniques, technical and foreign terms, philosophical terms, and methodologies. (2001, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, covering all periods of Western architectural history. (2nd ed., 2006, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Modern Design
Covers the past 150 years of international design, with entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion. (2004, Oxford Reference Online)
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Covers the major movements and styles of the twentieth-century, and includes entries on art schools, galleries, exhibitions, prizes, terms, techniques, collectors, critics, dealers and patrons. (2003, Oxford Reference Online)
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. (5 v., 2004, Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
Provides information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites, and stylistic developments of the Classical period. (2007, Oxford Reference Online)
Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Covers thousands of years of the decorative arts in both western and non-western cultures: the uses of materials, art forms and styles, and the history of armor, jewelry, furniture, textiles, and ceramics. (2006, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Presents technical information and articles on photography as a social and artistic practice, with biographies of photographers and others who have influenced photographic culture from the 19th century to the present. (2005, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Companion to Western Art
Written by scholars, this covers Western Art from classical times to the 20th century: artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and terms, theory, and criticism. (2001, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Guide to American art from colonial times to the present day, with entries on leading artists, institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, and movements. (2007, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Dictionary of Art
Guide to the art of the Western world covering painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present. (3rd ed., 2004, Oxford Reference Online)
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Detail on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, covering the art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict of the period. (2003, Oxford Reference Online)
Safari E-books
Safari Books Online is a full-text collection of information technology books from leading publishers, such as O'Reilly, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, and 21 others. (ProQuest)
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