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Dictionary of Visual Discourse by Barry Sandywell
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781409401896
Publication Date: 2011-05-01
This substantial and ambitious dictionary explores the languages and cultures of visual studies. It provides the basis for understanding the foundations and motivations of current theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the different forms of visual culture that have come to organize everyday life. The book is firmly placed in the context of the 'visual turn' in contemporary thought. It has been designed as an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary introduction to the vocabularies and grammars of visuality that inform thinking in the arts and humanities today.
Encyclopedia of African American Artists by dele jegede
Call Number: N6538.N5 J44 2009
ISBN: 9780313337611
Publication Date: 2009-03-20
African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan Marter (Editor)
Call Number: N6505 .G76 2011
ISBN: 9780195335798
Publication Date: 2011-01-20
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art is an ambitious publishing endeavor, unparalleled in its comprehensive approach to the study of art in the United States. Edited by Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, the five-volume Encyclopedia reconceptualizes American Art from the vantage point of the twenty-first century with a new methodological approach and broader scope than any such work published to date. The project takes a fresh look at what American art is, how it is defined, and who influenced it and produced it, and it offers a new foundation for scholarship for decades to come.
The Oxford Dictionary of Art by Ian Chilvers (Editor)
ISBN: 0198604769
Publication Date: 2004-06-10
The Oxford Dictionary of Art is the unrivalled one-volume guide to the art of the Western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present.

Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists by Paul Cummings (Editor)
Call Number: N6512 C854 1994
ISBN: 0312084404
Publication Date: 1994-06-15
A completely revised and updated sixth edition of the most useful and detailed directory of America's leading artists. Over 900 comprehensive entries including biographical data, exhibitions, special commissions, collections, and a bibliography. With 149 newly selected illustrations.
Dictionary of Women Artists by Delia Gaze (Editor)
Call Number: N6512 C854 1994
ISBN: 1884964214
Publication Date: 1997-07-01
This work profiles 550 painters, sculptors, photographers and women working in the applied arts. It deals with the Western tradition of art and its emphasis is historical. It includes essays that concentrate on the artist's work and place her in an historical context.

artnet
artnet is the leading online resource for the international art market, and the destination to buy, sell, and research art online.
Union List of Artist Names - Getty
Look for accepted forms of proper names and alternates used by an artists, or groups of individuals working together (corporate bodies).

Art & Architecture Source
Full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design. With strong international coverage, it offers hundreds of full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts and thousands of images.
Project Muse
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Provides searchable full text of over 200 scholarly journals from scholarly publishers and covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and other subject areas.
JSTOR
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Contains the complete back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the natural and applied sciences, as well as the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
Academic Search Complete
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracting for more than 9,300 journals.
ProQuest Platform
The ProQuest platform makes hundreds of Full text and A&I (Abstracts & Indexes) collections available to researchers around the world. The ProQuest Platform hosts multidisciplinary content containing scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.

Artstor
Artstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Registered users can save and organize Artstor images into groups, export image groups as a PowerPoint 2007 file for classroom presentations or share with other users at CWU through a stable URL link. For detailed instructions for registering, see Artstor's online help.

Note: Artstor is moving to JSTOR. The Artstor website will be retired next year on Aug. 1, 2024, but you can get started with using Artstor resources on JSTOR now. Link to the Artstor experience on JSTOR. Your existing Artstor user account will work on JSTOR.

Image Collections and Online Art
Part of the website "Mother of all Art and History Links" this portion of the site--Image Collections and Online Art--is a portal to other online collections. It has links to websites covering all art formats and searchable by geographic region (African & the African Diaspora, the Americas, Asia, Europe, Islam, Classical World of the Mediterranean) by format (Photography) and by location (Collections, Galleries & Sources).
Europeana
Europeana is a gateway to digitized resources from more than 2,000 European cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and archives. It is multilingual and incorporates materials of cultural and scientific historical significance. Formats include images, texts (books, primary documents, articles), sound, and video.
Art Cyclopedia
Searches over 8,700 artists from 2,600 art sites indexed by the site.
VADS: Visual Arts Data Services
VADS provides a national collection of over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections across the UK, which are freely available for non-commercial use in education. The images cover the broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media.

Artcyclopedia
Includes original short entries and examples of art movements, as well as a search engine indexing other websites on artists, museums, and the titles of artworks. You can also browse by medium, subject, nationality and women artists. Lists nearly 9,000 artists and nearly 3,000 art websites.
Asia Art Archive
With one of the most valuable growing collections of material on the recent history of art from Asia, freely available from our website and onsite library, AAA builds tools and communities to collectively expand knowledge through research, residency, and educational programs.
BBC Arts and Culture
The BBC provides news and opinions on issues in art.
MetPublications
Five decades of Met publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.
MoMA Online Collection
The Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) online collection features images, more than 92,000 works. Users can search by artist or medium and refine results by time period.
Museum Without Frontiers: Discover Islamic Art
At the invitation of the Museum With No Frontiers, 14 countries from around the Mediterranean and the European Union have agreed to collaborate on producing a virtual museum on the Internet that explores Islamic art and material culture in the Mediterranean region.
NYARC Arcade
This resource unites the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art under a single search. Containing more than 1 million records, Arcade provides access to research collections spanning the spectrum of art history, from ancient Egypt to contemporary art. These resources, many uniquely held, include exhibition and art collection catalogs, monographs and periodicals, rare books, photograph collections, artists' books, files on artists, auction catalogs, archives (textual and visual), digital resources and specialized databases.
Virtual Alcove for Art - Library of Congress
"Collection of websites selected and annotated by Humanities and Social Sciences Division subject specialists." All are partly or entirely freely available. Sections include General Resources; Architecture; Fine Arts; Decorative Arts; Pottery, Porcelain, Ceramics, and Glass; Jewelry, Silver, and Metals; Clothing, Textiles, and Domestic Arts, and others.