2. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Guides
AskART
Biographical and bibliographical information for more than 52,00 American artists. Searchable by artist name. Includes information about museum holdings and auction sales. Available in both free and subscription versions. For subscription access, please see the Reference Librarian.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Full-text, searchable version of the nine volume Encyclopaedia of Islam (RFA50.23.50) including volumes for Addenda & Corrigenda, Glossary & Index of Terms, Index of Proper Names, and Index of Subjects. Contains over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art is the world's first comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s. Global coverage provides detailed analysis of the arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific, and Europe. In addition, influences on the production of art such as trade, geography, history and politics are fully addressed, helping to place art in context and further a broad understanding of the history of artistic endeavor. The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides the capability to search all 41,000 articles that appeared in the original printed version. The text of the Online Grove Dictionary of Art and its more than 500,000 bibliographical references is updated regularly. The Online Grove now includes two significant image collections: The Bridgeman Archive (100,000 images) and Art Resource (90,000 images). Additionally, the Online Grove provides links to digital images of art works from over 40,000 museums, galleries, and art collections around the world.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Oxford Reference Online Premium contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of of all works included. A broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series is available, including the following art and architecture texts: A Dictionary of Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Photographers Encyclopaedia International
Contains biographies, exhibition lists, bibliographies and addresses of more than 3,000 photographers. Also included is slightly less complete information an additional 3,000 others. Other features are a chronology of the history of photography, a lexicon of processes, and more than 5,900 images.
This CD-ROM database is available in the Slides and Digital Images Department, located on the mezzanine level of the Fine Arts Library.
