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Art 600. Art History Bibliography and Library Methods

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Art 600. Art History Bibliography and Library Methods
This course, taught by the Art & Architecture Librarians, is designed primarily for art history graduate students; upper-class undergraduate majors who plan to continue in art history on the graduate level may enroll with the consent of the instructor. The class provides an introduction to reference works and research strategies essential to architectural and art history. Electronic and print sources of artistic, historical, and cultural information are presented in groupings based on resource types and topics. Several of these lists are reproduced here and may serve as research guides to the reference literature.

Reference Lists

Research Guides -- General guides to research, reading, and writing in the arts.

Lists of Published Catalogs of Books -- International, national, and area library catalogs in print.

General and Topical Bibliographies -- Ranging from art general to topical, medium, period, movement, artist, architect, art historian, and specialized; plus a listing of art library catalogs in print.

Art Periodical Indexes and Abstracting Services on Paper -- Commercial and institutional guides to articles, essays within collected works, and festschriften, including art general, medium, and topical indexes.

Other Periodical and Literature Indexes (Non-Art)-- General, discipline-specific, newspaper, dissertation, and book review indexes.

Art Encyclopedias -- General, media-specific (Decorative Arts), geographic, or period (Early Christian).

Art Biographical Reference Sources -- General, media specific, geographical, or period; indexes to biographical sources; guides to artists'; signatures and monograms.

Dictionaries of Art Terms

Exhibition Records Arranged by Artist

Guides to Art Techniques

Bibliographies of Art Auction Catalogs

Indexes to Art Auction Catalogs

Biographical Reference Works - Collectors, Dealers

Significant Corpora

Catalogs of Paintings in a Geographic Region

Print Catalogs

Iconography

Archive Directories and Other Information

Commercial Picture Sources

Foreign Dissertations

Researching an Artwork

Research in Progress

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