Electronic Reference
- Grove Art Online (Oxford Art Online)
Best source for in-depth articles written by noted scholars; each article includes an extensive bibliography as well as related images. - Oxford Reference Online Premium: Art & Architecture Search collection of guides and dictionaries, individually or together. Includes The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
- Credo Reference Art
Search online reference texts for brief definitions and articles. - Credo Reference Art
Print Reference
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Art in the Modern Era : A Guide to Styles, Schools & Movements - Amy Dempsey
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference N6490 .D415 2002
ISBN/ISSN: 0810941724- International Dictionary of Art and Artists - James Vinson, ed.
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference N7425 .I67 1990
Vol. 1 (Artists) provides articles on the most important artists from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Each article presents essential facts on the artist's career; the most important public and private collections of the artist's work; a bibliography of books and articles on and by the artist; and a critical essay discussing the historical and critical aspects of the artist's work. In roughly chronological order, vol. 2 (Art) presents articles and reproductions of ca. 500 individual artworks regarded as the acknowledged masterpiece or a representative work of each selected artist. - Encyclopedia of World Art (17 volumes)
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference N31 .E533
Comprehensive coverage of all countries, periods, and cultures. Includes lengthy, detailed articles on broad historical, conceptual/systematic, and geographical topics by an international group of specialists. Use the analytic dictionary/index in vol. 15 to locate information on specific topics. The second half of each volume presents plates of key works discussed in the essays. Extensive bibliographies end each article. Vols. 1-15 issued in installments from 1959 to 1968; vol. 16 ("World Art in Our Time," 1983) and 17 ("New Discoveries and Perspectives," 1987) present important supplements with separate indexes. Despite its age, this entire encyclopedia remains an essential resource for art research. - Contemporary Artists - Joann Cerrito, ed.; advisers, Jean-Christophe Ammann ... [et al.].
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference N6490 .C6567 1996
Offers thorough profiles of over 800 of the most significant artists of the later 20th century working in painting, graphics, sculpture, mixed media, and performance, video, and computer art. Entries include biographical data, comprehensive lists of individual exhibitions, selected lists of important group exhibitions, public collections that include works by the artists or permanent public installations, primary and secondary bibliographies, personal statements (when available), and critical essays. Many entries also feature illustrations. - Contemporary Designers - Sara Pendergast, ed.
Call Number: Creative Arts - Reference NK1390 .C655 1997
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Provides detailed biographical, bibliographical, and critical information about the background, work, and philosophies of important contemporary designers working in a wide spectrum of design fields that include ceramics, costume, environmental, exhibition, fashion, film, furniture, glass, graphic, industrial, interior, product, stage, textile, and typography (among many others). The international scope focuses on living designers but includes entries on deceased artists whose work continues to influence the course of design. Each entry includes a chronological list of the designer's important works, primary and secondary bibliographies, a personal statement (when available), a critical essay on the designer, and a photograph or illustration of a representative work. 
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
ISBN/ISSN: 0195113071
Offers a combination of historical material and critical discussions of contemporary aesthetics, defined as "critical reflection on art, culture, and nature." Includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged essays on individuals, concepts, periods, theories, issues, and movements in the history of aesthetics, ranging from the Greco-Roman era to the present and written by philosophers, art historians, literary theorists, psychologists, feminist theorists, legal theorists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Articles conclude with good bibliographies of primary and secondary sources. Coverage of most major art forms appears in composite entries arranged under one headword, combining conceptual and historical overviews with in-depth analyses of issues and ideas. Presents excellent articles on certain key artists and a wide array of art topics, such as "abstract expressionism," "art market," "constructivism," "pop art," "representations," "sociology of art," "taste," and "theories of art." Vol. 4 concludes with an index that points to all articles and passages relevant to the study of art.
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Main Library, Farber Level 2
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lzeidenb@brandeis.edu
Send Email
Subjects:
Art, Architecture, Photography, Music, Theater, Dance
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