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    Art and Design Library Guide

    Reference Books in Shipman Library

     

    Background Information: General Art Sources

    Bearden, Romare. A History of African American Artists. REF N 6538 .N5 B38 1993

    Bostrom, Antonia, ed. The Encyclopedia of Sculpture (3v.). REF NB 198 .E53 2004

    Brigstocke, Hugh, ed. The Oxford Companion to Western Art. REF N 33 .O923 2001

    Buchholz, Elke Linda. Women Artists. REF N 8354 .B83 2003

    Chilvers, Ian. The Oxford Dictionary of Art. REF N 33 .O93 2004

    Gaze, Delia, ed. Dictionary of Women Artists (2v.). REF N 8354 .D53 1997

    Great Artists of the Western World (10v.). REF N 40 .G77 1990

    Heller, Jules, and Nancy G. Heller, ed. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century. REF N 6503 .N67 1995

    Henkes, Robert. The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty Four Artists of the Twentieth Century. REF N 6538 .N5 H45 1993

    Henkes, Robert. Latin American Women Artists of the United States: the Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. REF N 6538 .H58 H46 1999

    Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, and Kevin Hillstrom, ed. Contemporary Women Artists. REF N 8354 .C66 1999

    Kort, Carol and Liz Sonneborn. A-Z of American Women in the Visual Arts. REF N 6505 .K59 2002

    Langmuir, Erika and Norbert Lynton. The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists. REF N 33 .L353 2000

    Marks, Claude, ed. World Artists 1950-1980. REF N 6489 .M37 1984

    Marks, Claude, ed. World Artists 1980-1990. REF N 6489 .W67 1991

    Morgan, Ann Lee. The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists. REF N 6505 .M59 2007

    Pendergast, Sara and Tom Pendergast, ed. Contemporary Artists (2v.). REF N 6490 .C6567 2002

    Robertson, Jack S. Twentieth Century Artists on Art: an Index to Artists' Writings, Statements, and Interviews. REF NX 456 .R59 1996

    Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists from Early Indian Times to the Present. REF N 6505 .R8 1982

    Summers, Claude J., ed. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. REF N 72 .H64 Q44 2004

    Turner, Jane, ed. The Dictionary of Art (34v.). REF N 31 .D5 1996

     

    Background Information: Architecture

    Burden, Ernest. Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture. REF NA 31 .B83 1998

    Emanuel, Muriel, ed. Contemporary Architects. REF NA 680 .C625 1994

    Harris, Cyril M. Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. REF NA 31 .H32 2006

    Hoke, John Ray, ed. Architectural Graphic Standards. REF TH 2031 .R35 1994

    Phillips, Steven J. Old-House Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to American Domestic Architecture (1600-1940). REF NA 7205 .P48 1994

    Sennott, R. Stephen, ed. Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture (3v.). REF NA 680 .E495 2004

     

    Background Information: Interior Design

    Ballast, David Kent. Interior Design Reference Manual: A Guide to the NCIDQ Exam. REF NK 2116.5 .B35 2006

    Banham, Joanna, ed. Encyclopedia of Interior Design (2v.). REF NK 1185 .E53 1997y

    Boyce, Charles. Dictionary of Furniture. REF NK 2205 .D5 2000

    Byars, Mel. The Design Encyclopedia. REF NK 1370 .B93 2004

    Duffes, Melissa Wells. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes through American History (4v.). REF NA 7205 .G745 2008

    Pendergast, Sara, ed. Contemporary Designers. REF NK 1390 .C655 1997

    Riley, Noel, ed. The Elements of Design: A Practical Encyclopedia of the Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present. REF NK 750 .E48 2003

    Trench, Lucy, ed. Materials & Techniques in the Decorative Arts. REF NK 30 .M38 2000

    Woodham, Jonathan. A Dictionary of Modern Design. REF NK 1165 .W66 2004

     

    Background Information: Photography

    Ang, Tom. Dictionary of Photography and Digital Imaging. REF TR 9 .A53 2002y

    Evans, Martin Marix, ed. Contemporary Photographers. REF TR 139 .C664 1995

    Lenman, Robin, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. REF TR 9 .O94 2005

    McDarrah, Gloria S., Fred W. McDarrah and Timothy S. McDarrah, ed. The Photography Encyclopedia. TR 9 .M39 1999

    Stroebel, Leslie, and Richard Zakia, ed. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. REF TR 9 .F6 1993

     

    Indexes

    Art Index (1983-2003). INDEX Z 5937 .A78

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