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The Grove Dictionary of Art
Call Number: REF N31.D5 1996
ISBN: 1884446000
Publication Date: 2003-02-11
This print book is the definitive Art encyclopedia. The articles are uniformly excellent and feature excellent bibliographies.

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Some standard Reference books

History of Art by Anthony F. Janson
Call Number: REF N5300|b.J3 2001
ISBN: 0810934469
Publication Date: 2001
This classic book uses an exceptional art program, featuring impeccable accurate five-color illustrations, to introduce readers to the vast world of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the minor arts.
Art history : portable edition by Stokstad, Marilyn, 1929-
Call Number: REF N5300 .S923 2009
ISBN: 0136040977
Publication Date: 2009
Art History Portable Editionby Marilyn Stokstad offers exactly the same content as Art History, Third Editionbut in smaller individual booklets for maximum student portability.
Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era by Steve Shipp
Call Number: REF N6502.4 .S45 2003
ISBN: 0786410574
Publication Date: 2003-01-22
This is a comprehensive reference book to more than 12,700 painters, sculptors, graphic artists and architects in Latin America (Mexico, Central America, South America) and the Caribbean region active during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Contemporary Women Artists by Laurie Collier Hillstrom; Kevin Hillstrom
Call Number: REF N8354 .C66 1999
ISBN: 1558623728
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
This volume provides thorough biographical, bibliographical and critical information on 350 of the world's most prominent and influential 20th century women artists, including important new artists.
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall; Kenneth Clark
Call Number: REF N7560 .H34 2008
ISBN: 9780813343938
Publication Date: 2007-12-25
The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist’s execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based
A Companion to Modern African Art by Gitti Salami; Monica Blackmun Visona
ISBN: 9781118515068
Publication Date: 2013-10-22
Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.
Digital Art History by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel; Trish Cashen; Hazel Gardiner
ISBN: 1841509108
This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. ."
Video Art by Catherine Elwes
ISBN: 1850435464
Publication Date: 2005-03-02
Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked--often unknown. This book is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history.
The Essential New Art Examiner by Terri Griffith (Editor); Kathryn Born (Editor); Janet Koplos (Editor)
ISBN: 0875806627
Publication Date: 2011-12-01
The New Art Examiner was the only successful art magazine ever to come out of Chicago. It had nearly a three-decade long run, and since its founding in 1974 by Jane Addams Allen and Derek Guthrie, no art periodical published in the Windy City has lasted longer or has achieved the critical mass of readers and admirers that it did. The Essential New Art Examiner gathers the most memorable and celebrated articles from this seminal publication.