LibGuides: Art and Art History: Overview Resources

Overview Resources

Find background information, including definition of art terms and biographies in these resources.

Gale eBooks
find information on artists and art movements, including contextual history in this database of encyclopedias
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is the access point for Grove Art Online and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists with entries on artists from antiquity to the present day, including auction records, museum holdings, and bibliographies.

Looking at Paintings by Dawson W. Carr; Mark Leonard
ISBN: 0714117250

Publication Date: 1992-01-01
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph by Robin Lenman (Editor)
ISBN: 0198662718

Publication Date: 2005-12-01
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Hugh Brigstocke (Editor)
ISBN: 0198662033

Publication Date: 2001-11-22
The Oxford Dictionary of Art by Ian Chilvers (Editor); Harold Osborne (Editor); Dennis Farr (Editor)
ISBN: 0198600844

Publication Date: 1997-07-31