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REFERENCE SOURCES
| R 703 En1o | Encyclopedia of World Art This large set originally had fourteen volumes, published from 1959 to 1967. Later, an index volume was added and two supplement volumes, published in 1983 and 1987. It covers art throughout history and in many different places in the world among many different cultures. It covers the "representational arts" of architecture, sculpture, and painting. This encyclopedia is a translation of the Enciclopedia Universale Dell'Arte, published by the Instituto Per La Collaborazione Culturale in Rome. The contributors to this encyclopedia came from over 35 different countries. The types of articles in this massive set include: historical articles, conceptual and systematic articles, and geographical articles. |
| R 703 M17d | McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art This set was published in 1969 and contains 15,000 entries on many topics related to world art. A large part of this work is given to "biographies of painters, sculptors, architects, industrial designers, and decorative artists from all periods and all countries." There are also articles on styles, periods, cities, buildings, museums, and definitions. |
| R 703 P88e | Praeger Encyclopedia of Art This five volume set provides a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to art history. This encyclopedia was published in 1971 and contains over 4000 articles of the following kind: biographical articles, articles on art in particular nations, articles on periods, styles, schools and movements in art, and finally surveys of civilizations for which no artists' names are known. |
| R 703 D56 | Dictionary of Art This 34 volume set, published in 1996, contains 45,000 articles on all aspects of art, including: the decorative arts, architecture, photography, painting, sculpture, and more. It contains over 20,000 biographies from all periods of history, with there being more biographies for the twentieth century than for earlier periods of art history. About 17,000 of these biographies are of particular kinds of artists, such as: painters, sculptors, architects, illuminators, draughtsmen, silversmiths, cabinetmakers, potters, industrial designers and more. There are also over 3000 biographies on art patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers, art historians, museum officials, and teachers, and critics. It contains articles on art from all the countries of the world, and entries on major cities with significant art traditions. |
| R 770.3 M14p | The Photography Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia "is intended to give the young reader (or his or her teacher or parents) a comprehensive overview of the medium in a single, illustrated, easy-to-use volume." It contains biographies of important photographers, and also "important sections on awards, galleries and museums, magazines, booksellers, manufacturers, films, and book reviews." |
| R 720.973 P12e2 | Encyclopedia of American Architecture. This encyclopedia gives definitions of architectural terms and and important works of architecture from the past and present. It also contains biographies of important people in architecture." |
| R 709.22 C76c4 | Contemporary Artists 1996 This book contains about 800 artists up to about 1996. To be included, an author must be still alive or have have died after 1960. |
| R 709.22 C91d | Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists Contains biographical information on 900 artists who have had recognition and/or representation in exhibits, museums, or who were influential as teachers. For each entry, the following is given: where they studied art and with whom they studied, teaching experience, participation inn the Federal Arts Project, commissions executed, scholarships and awards won, address and dealers of record, important one man retrospectives, and group exhibitions, and a bibliography. |
| NA R 704.0397 Sa2m | St. James Guide to Native North American Artists |
| R 709.22 N81 | North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century Presents biographical data of professional women artists of the United States, Canada and Mexico who have had their works in exhibitions or museums. |
| R 704.0368 SA2R | St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists : Profiles of Latino and Latin American Artists All artists included in this guide were born or have worked in Latin America. They have gained prominence through exhibitions in nonprofit and educational institutions as well as in commercial venues. |
| R 927 Sa1 | St. James Guide to Black Artists |
| R 704.0396073 L58A | African American Art and Artists This is a mainly biographical listing of African American artists divided by time period: 1619 1865, Cultural Deprivation and Slavery; 1865-1920 Emancipation and Cultural Dilemma; 1920-1940, New Americanism and Ethnic Identity; 1940-1960, Social and Political Awareness; 1960-1990, Political and Cultural Awareness; 1990-2002, From Painting to Technology: Art before and into the New Millennium. Within each time period, the artists are divided by medium, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed-media. |
| R 927.5 M34w | World Artists, 1950-1980 Contains biographies of 312 artists who were influential in the thirty year period covered. |
| R 927.5 W89 | World Artists, 1980-1990 Contains biographies of over 120 artists who were influential in the decade. |
| R 759.13 Am3 | American Art Analog This three volume set contains information about 820 artists from 1688 to 1930. It is presented chronologically by year of birth of the artist. For each entry, there is information about the artists life, education and training, important influences, significant works, critical reputation, and performance at recent auctions. |
| R 927.7069 W62W | Who's Who in American Art, 2001-2002 This volume profiles 11,000 artists from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. THe people included are: artists, administrators, consultants, critics, curators, dealers, historians, educators, lecturers, collectors, librarians, and publishers. Biographies are obtained from the entrants themselves, so this is a volume of current people in the art world. |
| R 750 N42f | Fine Art Reproductions: Old and Modern Masters This book contains hundreds reproductions from the New York Graphic Society, one of the world's largest publishers of fine art reproductions. There are reproductions of famous paintings from American artists, European Artists, Mexico, the orient, landscapes, portraits, children seascapes, horses, ballet, birds and religious paintings. |
| R 759.08 Un3c | Catalog of Reproductions of Paintings – 1860 – 1969. The primary goal of this catalog is to make the masterpieces of painting more widely known by promoting the production and distribution of high-quality color reproductions on a world scale. |
| R 704.0368 SA2R | Art of the 20th Century This two volume set paints a analytic view of art from the 1860's to the dawn of the 21st century. The first volume covers painting and takes a thematic approach, with chapters on prologue to modernism, expression and form, abstraction and reality, classicism and imagination, and more. Volume II covers sculpture, new media and photography. |
| R 709.22 M72Y | Modern Arts Criticism A Biographical and critical guide to painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects from the beginning of the modern era to the present. |
| R 709.04 D39A | Art in the Modern Era This volume is a guide to styles, schools, and movements in the art world from 1860 to the 21st century. |
| R 730 W67S | The Sculpture Reference This volume contains definitions of sculpture terms and contains over 16,000 images of works of sculpture and pictures that help to define the terms included in this volume. |
| R 700.9 AR7T | Arts and Humanities Through the Eras This volume contends that it is taking an inter-disciplinary approach to studying the past, containing information on the cultural aspects of civilizations, such as: architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater, and visual arts. |
PERIODICAL INDEXES
| Basement | Humanities Index(paper) Index to articles appearing in several hundred journals in the humanities, including: archaeology, area studies, folklore, history, language and literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion. The Library has this index from 1974 to 1993 in paper. |
Basement | Art Index(paper) An index to around 300 journals, museum bulletins, and yearbooks, in the areas of archeology, architecture, art history, crafts, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography & films and related subjects. The Library has this index from 1967 to 2002. |
| Basement | EBSCOHost(online) Electronic database allowing keyword searches to access article citations from a broad range of scholarly journals. Can limit searches to full text and peer reviewed journal articles. |
| Basement | FirstSearch(online) Electronic database allowing keyword searches to access article citations from a broad range of scholarly journals. For example: the database Wilson Select includes selected journals from Art Abstracts, which is the on-line version of the paper Art Index. |
NEWSPAPERS AND SELECTED MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
ART MAGAZINES & JOURNALS AVAILABLE FULL-TEXT THROUGH EBESCOHOST
These journals are available full-text through EBSCOHost's Academic Search Elite that are not available at the SE Library in paper.ART RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
There are many outstanding Art Resources on the Internet. Many of these resources contain biographical information about artists, plus information as to where their art has been shown at a gallery. Many also contain color reproductions of many of the artists' works. Here is a link to a page on the Southeastern Oklahoma State University Library's webpage: