LITERATURE OF THE HUMANITIES

VISUAL ARTS

I. ARTS IN GENERAL

Guides, Bibliographies, and Indexes

Guide to Basic Information Sources in the Visual Arts. Gerd Muehsam. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1977. 266 p.


Art Research Methods and Resources: A Guide to Finding Art Information. 3rd ed. Lois Swan Jones. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1990. 373 p.


Fine Arts: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Reference Works, Histories, and Handbooks. 3rd ed. Donald L. Ehresmann. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1990. 373 p.


Fine Arts Periodicals: An International Directory of the Visual Arts. Doris Robinson. Voorsheesville, N.Y.: Peri Press, 1991. 570 p.


Guide to the Literature of Art History. Etta Mae Arntzen and Robert Rainwater. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. 616 p.


Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists. 2nd ed. Wolfgang M. Frietag. New York: Garland, 1996. 351 p.


*Art Index. 1929- . New York: H. W. Wilson. Quarterly, annual cumulation.


*ARTbibliographies MODERN. v.4- , 1973- . Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio. Semiannual.


*RILA, Repertoire international de la literature de l'art/International Repertory of the Literature of Art. 1975-1989. Williamstown, Mass.: Clark Art Institute/Getty Art History Information Program, 1975-1989.Semiannual.

*Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA=Bibliographie d'histoire de l'arte. 1991- . Santa Monica, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Art History Information Program, 1991- .


Twentieth Century Artists on Art: An Index to Artists' Writings, Statements, and Interviews by Artists, Architects, and Designers. 2nd enl. ed. Jack Robertson. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1996. 834 p.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques. 5th ed. Ralph Mayer; Revised and updated by Steven Sheehan. New York: Viking, 1991. 761 p.


The HarperCollins Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques. 2nd ed. Ralph Mayer; Revised and ed. by Steven Sheehan. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991. 474 p.


The Dictionary of Art. Jane Turner, ed. New York: Grove, 1996. 34 v.


A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art. Ian Chilvers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 670 p.


Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959-1987. 17 v.


The Encyclopedia of Visual Art. Sir Lawrence Gowing, general ed. London: Encyclopeadia Britannica, 1984. 10 vols.


The Oxford Companion to Art. Harold Osborne, ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970. Repr.1984, 1986, 1989. 1277 p.


The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. Harold Osborne, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Repr. with Corr., 1985-1990. 656 p.

Biographies and Directories

Artist Biographies Master Index: A Consolidated Index to More Than 275,000 Biographical Sketches of Artists Living and Dead. Barbara McNeil, ed. Detroit: Gale, 1986. 700 p.


Index to Artistic Biography. Patrica Pate Havlice. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1973. 2 v. Supplement. 1981.


International Dictionary of Art and Artists. James Vinson, ed. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990. 2 v.


Contemporary Artists. 4th ed. Joann Cerrito, ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996. 1340 p.


Who's Who in Art: Biographies of Leading Men and Women in the World of Art Today. 1927- . London: Art Trade Press, 1927- . Biennual.


Modern Arts Criticism: A Biographical and Critical Guide to Painters, Sculptors, Photographers, and Architects from the Beginning of the Modern Era to the Present. Joann Prosyniuk, et al. eds. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991- .


World Artists 1950-1980. Claude Marks. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1984. 912 p. Supplement 1980-1990, 1991.


International Directory of Arts. Latest ed. Frankfurt: Art Address Verlag; distr., Detroit: Gale, 19 .


Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born before 1900. Chris Petteys, et al. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985. 851 p.

Histories

Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture,
Photography. 4th ed. Frederick Hartt. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1993. 1127 p.


Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 9th ed. Horst De la Croix, et al. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. 1135 p.


History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day. 4th ed. Horst Woldemar Janson. Rev. and exp. by Anthony F. Janson. New York: Abrams, 1991. 856 p.


History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd ed. H. H. Arnason; rev. and updated by Daniel Wheeler. New York: Abrams, 1986. 744 p.


The Visual Arts: A History. 4th ed. Hugh Honour and John Fleming. New York: Abrams, 1995. 864 p.


A World History of Art. Hugh Honour and John Fleming. New York: Macmillan, 1991. 856 p.

II. PAINTING AND DRAWING

Cyclopedia of Painters and Painting. John Champlin and Charles C. Perkins. New York: Scribner's, 1885-87. Repr. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat, 1969. 4 v.


Contemporary Graphic Artists: A Biographical, Bibliographical, and Critical Guide to Current Illustrators, Animators, Cartoonists, Designers, and Other Graphic Artists. Maurice Horn, ed. Detroit: Gale, 1986-l988. 3 v. 


Larousse Dictionary of Painters. New York: Larousse, 1981. 467 p. Repr. 1989.


The Lives of the Painters. John Canaday. New York: Norton, 1969. Repr., 1972. 4 v.


A Concise History of Modern Painting. 3rd ed., enl. and updated. Sir Herbert Reed. New York: Praegor, 1974. 392 p. Repr., New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

III. ARCHITECTURE

Architecture: A Bibliographic Guide to Basic Reference Works, Histories, and Handbooks. Donald L. Ehresmann. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1984. 338 p.


Atlas of European Architecture. Brian Sachar. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. 369 p.


Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering & Construction. Joseph A. Wikes and Robert T. Packard, eds. New York: John Wiley, 1989-1990. 5v.


Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. Adolf K. Placzek, ed. New York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1982. 4 v.


International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. Randall Van Vynckt, ed. Detroit : St. James Press, 1993. 2 v.


Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 20th ed. Dan Cruickshank. Boston : Architectural Press, 1996. 1621 p.

IV. SCULPTURE

A History of Western Sculpture. John Pope-Hennessy. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1967-69. 4 v.



Sculpture Index. Jane Clapp. Metuchen, N. J.: Scarecrow, 1970-71. 2 v. in 3.


New Dictionary of Modern Sculpture. Robert Millard, ed. New York: Tudor, 1971. 328 p.

V. APPLIED AND DECORATIVE ARTS

Applied and Decorative Arts: A Bibliographic Guide. 2nd ed. Donald L. Ehresmann. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1993. 629 p.


The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. John Fleming and Hugh Honour. London: Viking, 1989. 935p.


The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. Harold Osborne, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975; repr., 1985. 880 p.


Contemporary Designers. 3rd ed. Sara Pendergast, ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. 981 p.

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VI. INTERNET RESOURCES

Key Guide to Electronic Resources: Art and Art History. Martin Raisch and Pat Ensor, eds. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, 1996. 128p.

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