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Library of Congress Classification for Art
N - Art in General
NA - Architecture
NB - Sculpture
NC - Drawing
ND - Painting
NE - Graphic Arts
NK - Decorative Arts
NX - Art Theory
RELATED CLASSIFICATIONS
GT - Costume
SB - Landscape Architecture and Gardening
TR - Photography
Getting Started
Getting Started with Your Research
In this guide are resources to help you begin your research. Use the tabs above to browse topics. Check for your specific History of Art course under the Course Guides tab. For personal assistance, use the Ask a Librarian box, below, or contact Deirdre Spencer, Fine Arts Librarian.
Basic Art History Resources
Electronic Resources
Art Full Text (Art Index with full text articles) [WilsonWeb]
Indexes key international English-language arts publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition & award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more. Includes full text for selected articles since 1997.
Oxford Art Online
Formerly Grove Art Online, now a gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Contents now include Grove Art Online , The Oxford Companion to Western Art , Encyclopedia of Aesthetics , The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Bibliography of the History of Art
Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs & reviews, and dissertations covering artists & movements from the late 19th century to all aspects of modern & contemporary art, including photography from its invention in 1839 to the present.
ARTstor
(UM only) ARTstor is a database of nearly 1 million images brought together to serve the scholarly and instructional needs of art historians, as well as students and faculty in the humanities and related social sciences.
Index to Christian Art
Online version of the Princeton University medieval image database ICONCLASS.
Print Resources
Benezit Dictionary of Artists
N 40 .B4653 2006
An extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created primarily for art museums, auction houses, historians and dealers.
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