Fine Arts

BORIS Catalogue:   English

This Guide is a selective list of reference tools for students interested in the FINE ARTS – art history, painting, architecture, ceramics, design, etc. For works BY a particular author, or for works where the title is known, search the Library’s online catalogue BORIS under the author’s name or the title of the work. For works ABOUT a particular artist, or concerning a particular subject, search the catalogue under the artist’s name as subject or under the appropriate subject headings. The Library of Congress Subject Headings Lists (the large red books on the table in the Main Lobby) will help you determine the correct subject headings. The Library’s collection of materials on FINE ARTS is shelved in the N-NX section on the Second Floor.

The Library’s periodical holdings in FINE ARTS can be accessed through BORIS by typing in the title of the periodical you are seeking. Current issues of FINE ARTS journals are shelved in the Periodicals Room off the Main Lobby; older issues are bound and shelved on the Basement Level in classification (call) number order.

NOTE: Each item in the following Guide has a call number beside it. This is the number you should use to locate the item on the shelves. A number which includes the designation Ref. or Ref.Ind.Sd. indicates that the book is shelved in the Reference Room. The designation Ref.M. indicates that the item is shelved on the Reference Mezzanine.

INTERNET RESOURCES

A sample of internet sites which may be of interest to Fine Arts students is given here. A more complete idea of what is available on the internet can be obtained by using one of the internet search engines such as Google or Copernic. Note that many museums and galleries around the world now have web sites which can be visited for a virtual tour of their collections. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

  1. Art History Resources On The Web: an excellent and extensive collection of sites related to the study of art history.
  2. Web site of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
  3. A superb tour of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with many interesting features.
  4. The Art History Research Centre: a site, located at Concordia University in Montreal, which acts as a gateway to art history       research on the web.
  5. WebMuseum: a virtual art gallery, complete with brief biographies of the artists represented.
  6.  Timelines of Art History: selected web links on the art history of ancient civilizations.
  7. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  8. ArtLex: dictionary of visual art
  9. Terminology Collection - Word Online Art
  10. ArtCyclopedia
  11. AICT

 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

The Library subscribes to a number of databases and other services which may be of interest to Fine Arts students. Please visit the Reference Desk for further information.

GUIDES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

American painting: a guide to information sources.
Annotated bibliography of Greek and Roman art, architecture and archaeology. Art across America.
The art book.
Arts in America: a bibliography.
Barockthemen: eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts.
Biennial guide to Canadian artists in galleries, 2000-2001.
Fine arts: a bibliographical guide to basic reference works, histories and handbooks.
Guide to the literature of art history.
Oxford guide to classical mythology in the arts, 1300-1990.
Picture researcher’s handbook.
Reading and writing in the arts: a handbook.
Répertoire des documents audiovisuels sur l’art et les artists québécois.
The Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art.
Arts & humanities through the eras.
Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850.

 ND 205 .K4Z99 1974 Ref.
N 5610 .C6Z99 1975 Ref.
N 510 .A777 2000 Ref.
N 33 .A77 2000 Ref.
NX 503 .A1A77 1979 Ref.
N 6415 .B3P5 1974 Ref.

N 55 .C3R4 Ref.
N 7425 .E35 1990 Ref.

N 380 .A67Z99 1980 Ref.
N7760 .R45 1993 Ref.
N 4000 .E8 1975a Ref.
N 7428 .G64Z99 1972 Ref.
NX 513 .A3Q472 1980 Ref.
N 8510 .G76 2008 Ref.
NX 440 .A787 2005 Ref.
NX 452.5 .R64 E53 2004 Ref.

 

DIRECTORIES

American art directory (1995/96).
Visual arts handbook.
World of learning.

 N 50 .A54 Ref.
N 6546 .O5V58 1991 Ref.
AS 2 .W6 Ref.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

General

L’Art et l’homme.
Britannica encyclopedia of American art.
Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’art.
Cyclopedia of painters and painting.
Dictionary of the decorative arts.
Dictionnaire de l’art contemporaine.
Enciclopedia Garzanti dell’arte.
Encyclopedia of Australian art.
Encyclopedia of modern art auction prices.
Encyclopedia of themes and subjects in painting.
Encyclopedia of world art.
Les étoffes: dictionnaire historique.
Guinness book of art facts and feats.
Illustrated dictionary of art and archaeology.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of art.
Oxford companion to art.
Oxford dictionary of art.
Penguin dictionary of decorative arts.
Phaidon dictionary of twentieth-century art.
Thames and Hudson encyclopedia of impressionism.
Visual dictionary of art.
Facts on file encyclopedia of art.
The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists.
The Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art.

 N 5300 .H95 1957 Ref.
N 31 .B7 1974 Ref.
N 31 .C48 1966 Ref.
ND 30 .C4 1969 Ref.
NK 30 .F55 1977 Ref.
N 6490 .C49 1965 Ref.
N 33 .E56 1979 Ref.
N 7400 .M27 1984 Ref.
N 6447 .B47 Ref.
ND 1288 .D3 1973 Ref.
N 31 .E533 Ref.
NK 8906 .H37 1994 Ref.
N 7438 .M54 1978 Ref.
N 33 .M6 1966 Ref.
N 33 .M23 1969 Ref.
N 33 .O9 1970 Ref.
N 33 .O93 1988 Ref.
NK 30 .F55 1989 Ref.
N 6490 .P46 Ref.
N 6465 .I4D4 1990 Ref.
N 33 .V56 1974 Ref.
N 31 .F33 2005 Ref.
N 6505 .M59 2007 Ref.
N 8510 .G76 2008 Ref.

 

Architecture

Dictionary of ancient Near Eastern architecture.
Dictionary of Islamic architecture.
Encyclopedia of modern architecture.
History of modern art: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography.

 NA 212 .L45 1988 Ref.
NA 380 .P43 1996 Ref.
NA 680 .E5 1964 Ref.
N 6490 .A75 2004 Ref.

 

Art Terminology

Glossary of art, architecture and design since 1945.
Harper/Collins dictionary of art terms and techniques.
Illustrated dictionary of art terms.
Painter’s dictionary of materials and methods.
Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms.

 N 34 .W34 1973b Ref.
N 33 .M37 1991 Ref.
N 33 .R49 1981 Ref.
ND 1505 .T38 1971 Ref.
N 33 .L75 1988 Ref.

 

Art History

Dictionary of American portraits.
Dictionary of British portraiture.
From abacus to Zeus: a handbook of art history.
Histoire de l’art.
Histoire universelle de l’art.
History of art.
History of modern art.
Larousse encyclopedia of Byzantine and medieval art.
Larousse encyclopedia of modern art.
Larousse encyclopedia of prehistoric and ancient art.
Larousse encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque art.
Nineteenth-century painters and painting: a dictionary.
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Athens.
Pictorial dictionary of ancient Rome.
Arts & humanities through the eras.
Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850.

 N 7593 .D5 1967 Ref.
N 7589 .D5 Ref.
N 33 .P5 1968 Ref.
N 5300 .J314 1988 Ref.
N 5300 .H46 1966 Ref.
N 5300 .J3 2001 Ref.
N 6490 .A75 1986 Ref.
N 5970 .H813 1963a Ref.
N 6450 .H813 1965a Ref.
N 5300 .H953 1962a Ref.
N 6350 .H813 1964a Ref.
ND 190 .N6 1977 Ref.
NA 280 .T68 1971 Ref.
NA 310 .N28 1968 Ref.
NX 440 .A787 2005 Ref.
NX 452.5 .R64 E53 2004 Ref.

 

Biography

Atlantic brief lives: a biographical companion to the arts.
Contemporary women artists.
Dictionary of American painters, sculptors and engravers.
Dictionary of art and artists.
Dictionary of British watercolor artists up to 1920.
Dictionary of contemporary American artists.
Dictionary of women artists.
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…
Dictionnaire général des artistes de l’école française depuis l’origine des arts du dessin jusqu’à nos jours.
New York Historical Society’s dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860.
Nineteenth-century painters and painting: a dictionary.
North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary.
Who’s who in American art (1985).
The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists.

 NX 90 .A73 1971 Ref.
N 8354 .C66 1999 Ref.
N 6536 .F5 1974 Ref.
N 31 .M8 1972 Ref.
ND 1928 .M27 1976 Ref.
N 6536 .C8 1973 Ref.
N 8354 .D53 1997 Ref.

N 40 .B47 1966 Ref.

N 6852 .B4 1979 Ref.
N 33 .N4 1975 Ref.
ND 190 .N6 1977 Ref.
N 6503 .N67 1995 Ref.

N 6536 .W5 Ref.
N 6505 .M59 2007 Ref.

 

Iconography and symbolism

The Bible and the saints.
Dictionary of Christian art.
Dictionary of Christian art.
Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art.
Harper’s Bible dictionary.
Iconographie de l’art chrétien.
Oxford dictionary of Christian art.
Signs & symbols in Christian art.

 N 8010 .D8313 1994 Ref.
N 8010 .A66 1995 Ref.
N 7830 .M87 2001 Ref.
N 7560 .H34 1979 Ref.
BS 440 .H237 1985 Ref.
N 7830 .R37 Ref.
N 7830 .M87 2001 Ref.
N 7830 .F37 1954 Ref.

 

INDEXES

Art index.
Humanities index.
Illustration index.
Index to art reproductions in books.
Index to artistic biography.
Index to reproductions of American paintings. With supplement (1966).
Index to reproductions of European paintings.
Paintings in the Uffizi and Pitti galleries.
Reader’s guide to periodical literature.

 N 1 .A7 Ref.Ind.Sd.
AI 3 .R49h Ref.Ind.Sd.
N 7525 .V3 Ref.
N 7525 .H48 1974 Ref.
N 40 .H38 1973 Ref.
ND 205 .M57 1948 Ref.
ND 45 .M6 1967 Ref.
N 2570 .G73 1994 Ref.
AI 3 .R48 Ref.Ind.Sd.

 

CANADA

Catalogue of pictures including paintings, drawings and prints in the Public
Archives of Canada.
Compendium of Canadian folk artists.
Creative Canada: a biographical dictionary of twentieth Century creative and
performing artists.
A dictionary of Canadian artists.
Early painters and engravers in Canada.

 N 910 .O72C3 1925 Ref.
NK 841 .K62 1985 Ref.
NX 513 .A1C7 Ref.

N 6548 .M28 Ref.
N 5648 .H37 1970 Ref.

 

ANTIQUES

L’art de reconnaître les meubles régionaux.
La berçante québécoise.
The collectors’ encyclopedia of antiques.
The complete color encyclopedia of antiques.
Complete guide to French-Canadian antiques.
Dictionnaire des styles.
An encyclopedia of small antiques.
The encyclopedia of Victoriana.
Encyclopédie des antiquités du Québec.
Le guide des artisans créateurs du Québec.
Les objets anciens du Québec : la vie domestique.
Les objets familiers de nos ancêtres.
The Oxford companion to the decorative arts.

 NK 2548 .B66 1966 Ref.
NK 2715 .M34 1973 Ref.
NK 28 .C65 1978 Ref.
N 8380 .C56 1975 Ref.
NK 842 .Q4L38 1974 Ref.
NK 1165 .J3 1966 Ref.

NK 928 .B66 1975 Ref.
NK 841 .Q4L384 1971 Ref.
NK 842 .Q4P3 1974 Ref.
NK 842 .Q4L386 1994 Ref.
NK 30 .G45 1974 Ref.
NK 30 .O93 1975 Ref.

 

COSTUMES

Costume: an illustrated survey from ancient times to the twentieth century. Costumes of everyday life: an illustrated history of working clothes from 900-1910.
The dictionary of costume.
A dictionary of English costume.
Encyclopaedia of fashion.
Encyclopédie du costume des peuples de l’antiquité à nos jours.

 GT 513 .L52 1967 Ref.
GT 513 .L5 1972 Ref.

GT 507 .W5 1969 Ref.
GT 507 .C8 1968 Ref.
GT 507 .O53 1986 Ref.
GT 507 .E5 1955 Ref.

 

CERAMICS

Dictionary of enamelling.
An illustrated dictionary of ceramics.

 NK 4998.5 .S6 1998 Ref.
NK 3770 .S38 1974b Ref.

 

DANCE

Ballet guide.
The concise Oxford dictionary of ballet.
The dance encyclopedia.

 GV 1790 .A1T47 1976 Ref.
GV 1585 .K6313 1987 Ref.
GV 1585 .C5 1967 Ref.

 

NOTE: See also the Student Guide To Resources In Cinema.


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