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Providing excellent coverage of the visual arts in all parts of the world, this online resource contains several reference works on art. Most important is Grove's Dictionary of Art, the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia of the visual arts that has ever been published. It contains biographical articles about over 22,000 artists and other people important in the field of art.
Providing excellent coverage of the visual arts in all parts of the world, this database contains several reference works on art. Most important is Groves Dictionary of Art, the most highly respected encyclopedia of art in the English language.
This encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference source on American painting, architecture, sculpture, and photography, from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century. It provides especially strong coverage of American ethnic art and new artistic media, such as digital art, performance art, and installation art.
This is a beautifully illustrated one-volume encyclopedia devoted to American architecture of all time periods, with strong coverage of the twentieth century.
This multivolume encyclopedia is comprised of scholarly articles on all aspects of architecture - style, design, construction, technology, economics, organizations, movements, and people.
International in scope, covering the entire history of three-dimensional art from prehistoric times to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this well illustrated reference work is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of sculpture ever published. It includes articles on individual sculptors, major works of art, media, techniques, and surveys of the sculpture of individual countries throughout history.
The following encyclopedias are excellent sources to begin research on photography or photographers, from the invention of photography to the present.