Art Resources on the Web
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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Oxford Art Online
includes:
- Grove Art Online : containing articles on most aspects of the visual arts, from prehistoric times to the present.
- Oxford Companion to Western Art : provides in-depth coverage of Westrern Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques.
- Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts : Contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures.
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Oxford Reference Online: Art & Architecture : gateway to 13
searchable reference texts, including:
- Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
- Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
- Oxford Dictionary of Art
- Dictionary of Modern Design
- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
- Oxford Companion to the Photograph
- Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
- Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Biography
Subjects in Art
Other
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ARTstor (new!) : covers many time periods and cultures, and documents
the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well
as many other forms of visual culture.
- Finding and Using Digital Images (UW Libraries guide)
:
a list of links to many online digital image collections compiled by subject area.
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