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Grove Art Online: Covers all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory
to the 1990s. Provides access to 45,000 articles on the art and culture of
Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and
further information in museum and other art-related web sites. Restricted
to UC network.
- Johns
Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: One of the standards
in the field, this guide offers cross-referenced articles for theorists such
as John Ruskin and Walter Benjamin, national and ethnic critical traditions,
periods, "schools," and literary forms. Includes extensive bibliographies
(good starting point for further research) and indexes. The entries on Film
Theory, Cultural Studies and Art Theory provide particularly useful overviews.
- Oxford
Reference Online - Art and Architecture: Provides access to A
Dictionary of Architechture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art
and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The
Oxford Dictionary of Art, and A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art.Restricted
to UC network.
- xreferplus
- art: A collection of over 10 sources which provide in-depth information
on everything from artists, art terms, works of art, architecture, design
and fashion. Restricted to UC network.
- The Dictionary of
Art Historians: From Duke University,
an index of basic biographical and methodological information about leading
historians, museum directors, and scholars of western art history. Entries
are compiled from a selection of major art historiographies. Unrestricted
access.
- Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus On Line: Developed as a public online resource by the Getty Institute, the Art and Architecture Thesaurus is a structured vocabulary containing 125,000 terms and other information that may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. Each record within the Thesaurus is returned as a concept, which in turn, is linked to various terms, related concepts, sources for the data, and notes.
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