Biographical Information: Historical and Contemporary
- Contemporary ArtistsCall Number: N6490 .C6567 1996
- Contemporary Women ArtistsCall Number: N8354 .C66 1999
- The Dictionary of ArtCall Number: N31 .D5 1996 v1. 34
Dictionary of Women Artists by Call Number: N8354 .D53 1997 v.1 & 2ISBN: 9781884964213Publication Date: 1997-07-01
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and ArchitectureCall Number: N5610 .G76 2007 v.1 & 2ISBN: 9780195300826
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and ArchitectureCall Number: N6260 .G75 2009 v.1 - 3ISBN: 9780195309911
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance ArtCall Number: N6370 .G76 2009 v.1 -3ISBN: 9780195334661- Guide to the Literature of Art HistoryCall Number: N380 .A7 and Supplement
Finding Books
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Set up your ILLiad account once and it is your interlibrary loan account for your academic career at Western.
Current Information
Use Google for artist's webpages and artist's statements. Search newspapers for current information and exhibitions.
- Global Newsstream [ProQuest]A database providing access to newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world.
- Newspaper Source Plus [EBSCO]A database that searches the full-text of more than 850 national and international newspapers as well as radio and television news transcripts.
Online Resources: A Reference e-Text and Databases
- Art Full Text [EBSCO]A database of full-text articles and citations to publications covering all types of art, including commercial art, photography, film, and architecture.
- BHA and RILA [Getty Research Institute]An index of citations to European and American visual art-history texts and articles published between 1975 and 2007. A fusion of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA).
- ArtstorA repository of artwork and images from around the world. Includes images relating to architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.
- JSTOR [ITHAKA]A multi-disciplinary full-text database of articles from many scholarly journals. Content available is usually 1-5 years behind the most recently published journal article. Also contains some current journals and books.
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