STUDIES IN EUROPEAN ART SINCE THE RENAISSANCE

CONTENTS

WWW sites

Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries

Finding journal articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies

Summon and the
library catalogue

CONTENTS

WWW sites

Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries

Finding journal articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies

Summon and the
library catalogue

CONTENTS

WWW sites

Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries

Finding journal articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies

Summon and the
library catalogue

CONTENTS

WWW sites

Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries

Finding journal articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies

Summon and the
library catalogue

Last update
Margaret Hosking
August 2010

WWW sites

General

Art History Resources on the web. Chris Witcombe's excellent guide.

Mother of All Art History Resources.

WWW virtual library - History of Art

Intute: visual arts is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued.

Artnet - includes a research library with thousands of articles form the Grove Dictionary of Art.
Fuller information is available to UofA staff and students at Oxford Art Online

The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles announces online access to 222 of the Library s collection of Salon books. Digitization was made possible through a grant from the Sloan Foundation. Online access to all of the digitized Salon books is available through the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/  (Search  getty salon ).

Galleries and Images

ArtStor
Digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Individual artists

Medieval mystery: who is the master of the embroidered foliage? from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Share the Perspective of Genius: Leonardo’s Study for the Adoration of the Magi from the Library of Congress

Rembrandt's late religious portraits, National Gallery of Art, Washington

InfoGoya96: an initiative of the University of Zaragoza

Goya's last works from the Frick Collection

Girodet - romantic rebel, from the Art Institute of Chicago

Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885, from the Museum of Modern Art

Vincent van Gogh Gallery

Van Gogh's Van Goghs (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Claude Monet

Turner Whistler Monet - from the Tate Gallery

On-Line Picasso Project

Matisse: Radical invention 1913-1917, from the Art Institute of Chicago....includes later periods as well.

Other useful websites

Oxford History of Art - online resources

Feminist aesthetics (a bibliography)

Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Cubism image bank, originally created by the University of Southern California.

Arts in Victorian Britain from the Victorian Web

Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Handbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries

These should be your starting point for basic information and key references about your artist or topic.

General

Oxford art online
Includes full texts of:
Grove dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.)
Oxford companion to western art,
Encyclopedia of aesthetics,
Concise Oxford dictionary of art terms

Encyclopedia of world art. 15 volumes. 1958.
Reference collection 703 E56

Britannica encyclopedia of art, ed.Sir Lawrence Gowing, 5 vols, 2005
Reference collection 703 G723b

Art civilization. 1992.
Reference collection 700.9 L937a

Concise history of painting from Giotto to Cézanne. 1962.
Reference collection 759 L668

Dictionnaire universal de la peinture. 6 volumes. 1975.
Reference collection 750.3 D554

Dictionary of art and artists. 1965.
Reference collection 703 M983
Supplemented by the updated text in -
Penguin dictionary of art and artists. 6th ed. 1989.
Reference collection 703 M983p.6

Dictionary of modern painting. 3rd ed. 1984.
Reference collection 759 L19.3

A dictionary of modern and contemporary art, Ian Chilvers, 2nd ed 2009
on order fro Refernce collection

Essential art history. 1992.
Reference collection 709 G829e

Hutchinson dictionary of the arts.: movements, terms, people: from ancient art to world music. 1994
Reference collection 700.3 M981h

Larousse encyclopedia of modern art. 1965.
Reference collection 709 L332m

The Oxford companion to western art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke 2001.
Reference collection 703 B856o

The Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture. 1996.
Reference collection 704.9482 M983o

Oxford dictionary of art. 2nd ed. 1997.
Reference collection 703 C538o.2....4th ed on order for Reference collection

The world’s master paintings: from the early Renaissance to the present day. 2 volumes. 1991.
Reference collection 750.74 M948w

Artists - biographical

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the artitsts

Cambridge companion to Masaccio, ed. Diane Cole Ahl, 2002
759.5 M394ZA Main collection

Artists: from Michaelangelo to Maya Lin. 2 volumes. 1995.
Reference collection 709.22 E67a

International dictionary of art and artists. 2 volumes. 1990.
Reference collection 703 V788i

Larousse dictionary of painters. 1981.
Reference collection 759.03 L332

Artists of the world: a bio-bibliographical index. 10 vols. 1999
Reference collection 709.2203 K65a

Biographical dictionary of artists. 1983.
Reference collection 709.2203 B615

Renaissance

The dictionary of 16th & 17th century British painters. 1988.
Reference collection 759.2 W326di
BSL Main Collection 759.2 W326di

Encyclopedia of the Renaissance ed. P. F Grendler, 6 vols. 1999
Reference collection 940.2103 G826e

Historical dictionary of Renaissance art, Lilian H. Zirpolo, 2008
Reference collection 709.024 Z81h

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850, ed C. J. Murray, 2 vols, 2003
Reference collection 700.3 M981e

Dictionary of Impressionism. 1973.
Reference collection 759.4 D5538

Encyclopedie du symbolisme: peinture, gravure et sculpture, litterature, musique. 1979.
Reference collection 700.3 C345e

L'Impressionnisme et son epoque. 1978.
Reference collection 703 M748l

Nineteenth century painters and painting: a dictionary. 1977.
Reference collection 759.03 N842n

Thames and Hudson encycloppedia of British art ed. D. Bindman.   1985
Reference collection  709.4103 T366

Twentieth Century

Atkins, R. Artspeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements and buzzwords 1945 to the present. 2nd ed. 1997

Contemporary artists. 4th ed. 1996.
Reference collection 709.22 C761.4

Contemporary masterworks. 1991.
Reference collection 709.04 N333c

Dictionary of Expressionism. 1973.
Reference collection 759.9 M958d.E

Dictionnaire abrege du Surrealisme. 1938.
Reference collection 709 D555

Dictionnaire general du Surrealisme et de ses environs . 1982.
Reference collection 700.3 D554

Dictionary of the avant-gardes, R. Kostelanetz. 2nd ed. 2000
Reference collection 700.90403 K86d

Dictionary of twentieth century art. 1998.
Reference collection 709.04 C538d

Dictionary of Surrealism. 1974.
Reference collection 709 P622d.E

Glossary of art, architecture and design since 1945. 3rd ed. 1992.
Reference collection 703 W181g.3

Oxford companion to twentieth-century art. 1981.
Reference collection 709.04 O98

Cambridge companion to Modernism. 1999.
Reference collection 700.4112 L657c

Art terminology

Art history : the key concepts, Jonathan Harris, 2006
709 H3147a main collection and also online Art history - the key concepts

Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory. 1997.
Reference collection 703 P298a

Dictionary of art terms and techniques. 1969.
Reference collection 703 M468

Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms E. Lucie-Smith, Edward 2003.
Reference collection 703 L937t .2

The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms, Michael Clarke 2002.
Reference collection 703 C599c

Looking at prints, drawings and watercolours : a guide to technical terms, Paul Goldman,
2nd ed. 2006
760.014 G619l.2 main collection

Symbols and Iconography

Encyclopedia of comparative iconography - themes depicted in works of art, ed. H. E. Roberts. 2 vols 1998
Very good - longer articles with bibliographies.
Reference collection 704.903 R6442

Dictionary of symbols in art : the illustrated key to Western painting and sculpture.
Sarah Carr-Gomm, 2000
Reference Collection 704.94603 C312d

Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art, James Hall, 2nd. ed. 2008
Reference collection 704.94 H177d.2

Encyclopaedia of themes and subjects in painting. 1971.
Reference collection 750.3 D184

The complete dictionary of symbols in myth, art and literature, ed.Jack Tresidder.
London : Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004
Reference collection 704.94603 T798c

Continuum encyclopedia of animal symbolism in art Hope B. Werness 2004
Reference collection 398.369 W494c

Women artists

Dictionary of women artists: an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. 1985.
Reference collection 709.2203 P499d

Women artists in history. 2nd ed. 1990.
Reference collection 704.042 S631w

Clement, R. T. The women impressionists : a sourcebook. 2000
Reference collection 759.4016 C626w

Atlases

Chronologies

Chronology of twentieth-century history: arts and culture. 2 volumes. 1998.
Reference collection 700.103 M194c

Chronologies are provided also in the following:
Art of our century: the story of Western art 1900 to the present. 1990.
Reference collection 709.04 F391a

Finding journal articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies

Art

Art abstracts has been replaced by Art and Architecture Complete, which links to more full text:
Comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 730 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 330 periodicals and 215 books, as well as selective coverage for over 70 publications, and an Image Collection of over 64,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others.

Artbibliographies modern. 1969- NOT IN BSL
State Library (1969-1987) and University of South Australia Library (1969-1996)
A comprehensive coverage of art and design of the 19th and 20th centuries.

BHA: bibliography of the history of art. 1991-1995.
Reference collection 705 R425.2
Covers the current literature of European art and of American art; and of art anywhere in the world that reflects contact with the Western tradition. The material is arranged within broad periods by topic then by country.
Use the Subject Index to locate all articles on an individual artist or specific theme.
Online access to BHA provided by the Getty Museum

Interdisciplinary indexes and databases

Academic OneFile1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals, including many art journals.

Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all subject areas, including art.

JSTOR includes full text of older issues of journals, including:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Periodicals index online
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Links to full text in PAO Periodicals archive online
An archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
This is a useful source for finding contemporary articles about art in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many of the older journals are held either in the BSL or State Library - check catalogues.

Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies etc etc.
Not a great number of explicitly art titles but some useful ones such as:
Modernism/modernity (1994-), Leonardo (2001-), Victorian studies 1999-

Historical abstracts with fulltext
Journal articles from History journals covering 1450-

If you need newspaper coverage of art exhibitions and news, use Factiva, an index to Australian and international newspapers with full text.
Older newspaper coverage can be found via theTimes(London) Digital archive at the State Library.

Web of science 1980-
Includes the Arts & humanities citation index.
Can search by keywords or citation. Artists are cited.

British humanities index. 1917-1994.
Reference collection 05 B863
A subject guide to articles in British journals and newspapers. Earlier volumes had a broader coverage. British humanities index and Art index are useful sources of contemporary comment from the 1920s to date.

Bibliographies

Kaufmann, T. Art and architecture in Central Europe, 1550-1620 : an annotated bibliography . 1988
Reference collection 720.943016 K21a

Parsons, C. A bibliography of Salon criticism in Second Empire Paris. 1986
Reference collection 701.18016 P267b

German expressionism in the fine arts : a bibliography, by John M. Spalek. 1977
Reference collection 709.43016 G373

Kleinbauer, W. E. Research guide to the history of Western art. 1982
Reference collection 709 K64r

Clement, R. T. The women impressionists : a sourcebook. 2000
Reference collection 759.4016 C626w

Summon and the library catalogue

The Summon searchbox on the library's home page is a quick way to search across the library's resources in print and online with direct links to electronic content. If you have an existing citation, you can check its online availability by typing a few keywords from the article's author and title into the Summon search box. If it's not there, double check the journal title in the libray catalogue.
The catalogue should be used for accurate thorough searches for additional books in the Barr Smith Library, as well as for information as to the location and status of particular titles.