Online Reference Sources for Contemporary Art
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
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Combines Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists.
- The Oxford Companion to Western ArtThe Oxford Companion to Western Art, written by over 100 distinguished art historians and specialists, 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. Critical appreciation and factual information on over 1700 artists from classical times to the 20th century.
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
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The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms is an accessible and useful A-Z, covering a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods. - Artists from Latin American Cultures: a biographical dictionary
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This biographical dictionary profiles 75 artists from the United States and 13 nations of Central and South America and the Caribbean, including painters, sculptors, photographers, muralists, printmakers, installation artists, and performance artists. - Encyclopedia of African American Artists
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The lives and works of over 75 artists of African American heritage are presented here, covering media of painting, sculpture, textiles, installation art, photography, and others. - Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists
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The lives and works of approximately 100 Arab American artists are presented in this volume, from painters to calligraphers to those who create on film.