LibGuides: Art: Books & eBooks

Why use books?

They often provide:

The history of a topic, background information, or context for a topic
Greater detail than is possible in a journal article
A visual representation of the artwork you are researching, usually on higher-quality paper

Oxford Dictionary of Arts & Artists by Ian Chilvers (Editor)
ISBN: 9780191782763
Publication Date: 2015
Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day.
Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists by Ann Lee Morgan
ISBN: 9780191807671
Publication Date: 2018
Biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism.
The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms by Michael Clarke
ISBN: 9780199569922
Publication Date: 2010
Covers a wide range of terms from the visual art world including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics by Michael Kelly (Editor-In-Chief)
ISBN: 9780199747108
Publication Date: 2014
Survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts—from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture.

The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology by Paul Corby Finney (Editor)
ISBN: 9780802838117
Publication Date: 2016
Draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence to provide a basic introduction to early Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and portable artifacts created roughly between AD 200 and 600 in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Aesthetics by David Goldblatt; Lee B. Brown; Stephanie Patridge
Call Number: 111.85 A254r 2018
ISBN: 9781138235878
Publication Date: 2017
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Information by Sarah Cook (Editor)
Call Number: 709.04 I436 2016
ISBN: 9780854882489
Publication Date: 2016
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This anthology provides the first art-historical reassessment of information-based art in relation to data structures and exhibition curation.
The American School by Susan Rather
Call Number: 709.73 R2347a 2016
ISBN: 0300214618
Publication Date: 2016
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Moholy-Nagy by Matthew S. Witkovsky
Call Number: Oversize 779.092 M689f 2016
ISBN: 0300214790
Publication Date: 2016
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Delacroix by Patrick Noon; Christopher Riopelle
Call Number: 759.4 D33n 2015
ISBN: 1857095758
Publication Date: 2015
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