Fine Arts - Visual Arts
From Subject Guides
Selected Resources for: Fine arts - visual arts June 2009,ws/dl
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Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
- Abstracts of International Conservation Literature is a free online resource for professionals engaged in the conservation of material cultural heritage research and practice. The database includes: More than 100,000 abstracts; Abstracts of articles from more than 470 journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, and other print resources, as well as audiovisual and selected digital resources.
- America: History and Life "Covers history and culture of the US and Canada from 1450 to the present."
Art Index
- Library has a complete set of volumes: v.1 1929 - (currently received)
- An author and subject index to citations from domestic and foreign journals about art, including archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, and photography.
- Call Number: Ref. Z5937 .A78
- "Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450a to the present, (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. While primarily an index, Historical Abstracts also has links to full-text articles for journals appearing in JSTOR, Project MUSE, Ingentia,, SwetsWise, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge Universty Press, provided your instituition subscribes to these databases. Historical Abstracts also has full-text access to the four subscription-controlled Historical Cooperative journals (American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly and William and Mary Quarterly).
- "Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995."
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
Roscoe L. West Library Catalog at The College of New Jersey
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
African Americans in the visual arts, by Steven Otfinoski
- Call Number: Ref. E185 .6 .F33 v.1
Artists of the American West: a biographical dictionary, by Doris Dawdy
- Call Number: Ref. N6535 .D38
Contemporary artists, ed. by Muriel Emanuel
- Call Number: Ref. N6490 .C6567 2002
Contemporary women artists, edi. by Laurie Collier Hillstrom and Kevin Hillstrom
- Call Number: Ref. N8354 .C66 1999
Dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860, by George C. Groce and David H. Wallace
- Call Number: Ref. N6536 .N4
Dictionary of women artists: an international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, by Chris Petteys
- Call Number: Ref. N43 .P47
Encylopedia of women artists of the American West, Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick
- Call Number: Ref. N8214.5 .K68 1998
General dictionary of painters, by Matthew Pilkington
- Call Number: Ref. ND35 .P6
People and the arts in North America, summaries of biographical articles in history
- Call Number: Ref. NX503 .P46 1988
Who's Who in American art
- Call Number: Ref. N6536 .W5
Who's who in architecture, from 1400 to the present, ed. By J.M. Richards
- Call Number: Ref. NA40 .W48
Women artists in America, eighteenth century to the present, by J.L. Collins
- Call Number: Ref. N443 .C64
World artists, 1950-1980, by Claude Marks
- Call Number: Ref. N6489 .M37 1984
Dictionaries
Architectural and building trades dictionary, by R.E. Putnam and G.E. Carlson
- Call Number: Ref. TH9 .P82 1974
Art pottery of the United States: an encyclopedia of producers and their marks, by Paul Evans
- Call Number: Ref. NK4007 .E92
Dictionary of architectural science, by Henry J. Cowan
- Call Number: Ref. NA31 .S25
Dictionary of abstract painting, with a history of abstract painting, by Michel Seuphor
- Call Number: Ref. ND35 .B42 1957
Dictionary of architecture and building: biographical, historical, and descriprive, by Russell Sturgis
- Call Number: Ref. NA31 .S84 1966
Dictionary of art and artists, by Peter and Linda Murray
- Call Number: Ref. N31 .M8 1972
Dictionary of art, ed. by Jane Turner
- Call Number: Ref. N31 .D5 1996
Dictionary of British miniature painters, by Daphne Foskett
- Call Number: Ref. ND1337 .G7 F463 1972
Dictionary of contemporary American artists, by Paul Cummings
- Call Number: Ref. N6536 .C8 1977
Dictionary of contemporary photography, by Lesie Stroebel and Hollis N. Todd
- Call Number: Ref. TR9 .S88
Dictionary of graphical symbols, by L.J. Robinson
- Call Number: Ref. Z250 .R683
Dictionary of Italian painting
- Call Number: Ref. ND611 .D513
Dictionary of Spanish painters: comprehending simply that part of their biography immediately connected with the arts, from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth
- Call Number: Ref. ND812 .O6
Dictionary of the decorative arts, by John Fleming and Hugh Honour
- Call Number: Ref. NK30 .F54 1977
Dictionary of twentieth century art, by Ian Chilvers
- Call Number: Ref. N6490 .C5317 1999
Dictionary of women artists, ed. by Delia Gaze
- Call Number: Ref. N8354 .D53 1997
Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme
- Call Number: Ref. ND1265 .D53 1969
Focal Dictionary of Photographic Technologies
- Call Number: Ref. TR9 .S77 1973b
Glossary of art, architecture, and design since 1945, by John A. Walker
- Call Number: Ref. N34 .W34
Historical architecture sourcebook, ed. by Cyril M. Harris
- Call Number: NA31 .H56
Illustrated dictionary of practical pottery, by Robert Fournier
- Call Number: Ref. TT919.5 .F68
Oxford dictionary of art, ed. by Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne
- Call Number: Ref. N33 .O93 1988
Phaidon dictionary of twentieth century art
- Call Number: Ref. N6490 .P46 1977
Studio dictionary of design and decoration, ed. by Robert Harling
- Call Number: Ref. NK1165 .S78 1973
Yale dictionary of art and artists, by Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton
- Call Number: Ref. N33 .L353 2000
Encyclopedias
Cyclopedia of painters and painting, ed. By John Denison Champlin
- Call Number: Ref. ND30 .C4 1887
Encyclopedia of comparative iconography: themes depicted in works of art, ed. by Helene E. Roberts
- Call Number: Ref. N7560 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of modern architecture, ed. by Wolfgang Pehnt
- Call Number: Ref. NA680 .E5
Encyclopedia of painting-painters and pinting of the world from prehistoric times to the present day, by Bernard S. Myers
- Call Number: Ref. ND30 .E5
Encyclopedia of the arts, ed. by Herbert Read
- Call Number: Ref. N31 .E54
Encyclopedia of themes and subjects in painting: mythological, Biblical, historical, literary, allegorical, and topical, by Howard Daniel
- Call Number: Ref. ND1288 .D3 1971
Encyclopedia of world art
- Call Number: Ref. N31 .E4833
New international illustrated encyclopedia of art
- Call Number: Ref. N31 .N4
Guides
Getty Union List of Artist Names Online
Library of Congress Classification Outline (for Fine Arts)
- Use this outline for browsing books in the stacks or in MATILDA, the Rider catalog, by call number. (This requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Use this to find subject headings for searching in library catalogs by subject, including MATILDA, the Rider University Online Catalog.
- Call Number: Ref. Z695.Z8 L5
Handbooks and Manuals
Encyclopedia of antique restoration and maintenance
- Call Number: Ref. NK1127.5 .E52 1974
New Century classical handbook
- Call Number: Ref. N5633 .N39
Oxford companion to art, ed. by Harold Osborne
- Call Number: Ref. N33 .O9
Oxford companion to the decorative arts, ed. by Harold Osborne
- Call Number: Ref. NK30 .O93
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
- A valuable, well-maintained and well-organized portal by the University of Michigan. Highly recommended.
Internet Directory
- A national directory of awards, funding, jobs, services, and other resources for artists in all disciplines.
Online Dictionaries
Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online (from the Getty Institute)
Online Encyclopedias
Websites
Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
Art Links on the World Wide Web (from Boston College)
- "A gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc. This site is intended to be selective, rather than comprehensive."
BUBL: index to the art-related sites on the web
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
- Includes images for selected works in the museum.
WWW Virtual Library: Art History
- An extremely good portal to sites of all kinds on art, including history, image collections, indexes and databases, catalogs, libraries, etc.
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
- ABI/INFORM Dateline Business, Economics: local and regional business publications Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. This index works best using controlled vocabularies.
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
- GenderWatch is a full text database. It includes newspapers, scholarly journals, magazines, reports and other types of publications that address the impact of gender issues on all aspects of contemporary society.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
- Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. ...Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others." Project MUSE includes the full content of each journal with the exception of advertisements.
Library Information
Moore Library
Address : 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville NJ 08648
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support. Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
Main Desk Telephone: 609-896-5113
Reference Desk Telephone:609-896-5115
Hours: http://www.rider.edu/15478_6194.htm
