Internet Links in Art & Design

Click on each link to expand the following categories.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Guides

• Grove Dictionary of Art
• Encyclopedia of World Art
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art
• Praeger Encyclopedia of Art
• Visual Dictionary of Art
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
• Oxford Companion to Art
• Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art
• Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
• Contemporary Artists
• Dictionary of 20-Century Art
• Dictionary of the Avant-gardes
• Styles, Schools and Movements: the Essential Encyclopedic Guide to Modern Art
• Art on the Cutting Edge: a Guide to Contemporary Movements
• Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
• Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists
• New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America
• North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century

Painting

• Larousse Dictionary of Painters
• Dictionary of Modern Painting
  

Sculpture

• New Dictionary of Modern Sculpture

Decorative arts

• Dictionary of the Decorative Arts
• Dictionary of Furniture
• Encyclopedia of Furniture

Design

• The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
• The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
• The Design Encyclopedia
• Women designers in the USA 1900-2000
• Process, Materials, Measurements

Photography

• Encyclopedia of Twentieth -Century Photography
• Dictionary of Contemporary Photography
• Focal Dictionary of Photographic Technologies
• Contemporary Photographers

Subjects & symbols

• Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art
• Signs & Symbols in Christian Art

Terms and techniques

• Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques
• Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945
• Artists' and Illustrators' Encyclopedia
• Pronunciation Dictionary of Artists Names
• Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Indexes

• Art Full Text and Art Retrospecitve , Art Index (aisle 2)
• World Painting Index
• Index to Artistic Biography
• Illustration Index

Art Appreciation, Research and Writing

•  Learning to Look: a Handbook for the Visual Art
• Learning to Look at Painting
• Looking at Pictures
• How to Read a Modern Painting
• What Great Paintings Say
• What Great Paintings Say (2)
• Art Research: Methods and Resources
• Guide to the Literature of Art History 1 and 2.
• Art Information and the Internet
• Writing About Art
• Writing about Visual Art
• Short Guide to Writing About Art

Directories

• International Directory of Arts
• American Art Directory
• Who's Who in American Art

More resources can be found by searching NJIT online catalog and our bookmarks at del.icio.us.