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background information
(This is just a small sample
of the Art Library's print reference materials related to architecture)
Encyclopedias
and Dictionaries:
The Dictionary of Art (Grove) (Art Ref - N31 .D5 1996)
Encyclopedia of World Art (Art Ref - N31 .E533)
A Dictionary of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .C86 1999)
Dictionary of Architecture & Construction (Art Ref -
NA31 .H32 1993)
Encyclopedia of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .Y37 1986)
International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (Art Ref - NA40 .I48 1993)
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (Art Ref - NA208 .E53 1997)
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture (Art Ref - NA680
.E495 2004)
Encyclopedia
of American Architecture (Art Ref - NA705 .P3 1995)
Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design Since 1945 (Art
Ref - N34 .W34 1992)
Biographical Dictionaries
and Indexes:
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .C44 1995)
International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (Art Ref - NA40 .I48
1993)
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (Art Ref - NA40
.M25)
Who's Who in Architecture : From 1400 to the Present
(Art Ref - NA40 .W48)
Contemporary Architects (Art Ref - NA680 .C625 1994)
Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Art Ref - NA701.W5)
Avery Obituary Index of Architects (Art Ref - Z5943.A69 A93 1980)
Brief Biographies
of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 From the
website of the Society of Architectural Historians. Transcribed from the
American Art Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director, Maine Historic
Preservation Commission
Bibliographies:
America
Preserved : A Checklist of Historic Buildings, Structures, and Sites
(Clapp Ref - E159 .A37 1995)
Art and Architecture
in Central Europe, 1550-1620 : An Annotated Bibliography (Art
Ref - Z5936.M34 K38 1988)
Romanesque Architecture : a Bibliography(Art Ref - Z5941.34
.D38 1993)
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture : An Annotated Bibliography
and Historiography (Art Ref - Z5943.C56 K55 1992)
Muslim Architecture of the Iberian Peninsula : Eastern and Western
Sources for Hispano-Islamic Building Arts (Art Ref - Z5944.S8
M66 1987)
Vernacular architecture in America : a selective bibliography (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 C87 1985)
Architecture and Women : a Bibliography Documenting Women Architects,
Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers,
and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States (Art
Ref - Z5944.U5 D6886 1988)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering
Record : an Annotated Bibliography (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 M39 1992)
American Architects From the Civil War to the First World War
: a Guide to Information Sources (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 W63)
American Architects From the First World War to the Present :
a Guide to Information Sources (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 W635)
A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts, and Crafts of Islam
by Sir K.A.C. Creswell, C.B.E(Art Ref - Z5956.I8 C74)
Arts in America : a Bibliography(Art Ref - Z5961.U5 A77)
Find
articles and essays
Avery
Index to Architectural PeriodicalsWC 1934 - current, with selective coverage
back to 1741.
Offers a comprehensive listing of journal
articles published worldwide (from 700+ journals) on architecture
and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, garden history,
and historic
preservation.
Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical
literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US
state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on
architecture and
design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Expanded coverage
includes obituary citations.
Art
Index RetrospectiveWC 1929-1984
Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index
volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database
cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical
coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum
bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German,
Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective
indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Database continues as Art Full Text, below.
Art
Full Text WC Indexing: 1984+; abstracting: 1994+;
full-text of selected articles: 1997+
Continued database from Art Index
Retrospective, above. To search both the indexing/abstracts
and the full text in this database, check both the OmniFile and Art Abstracts
boxes. Indexes and abstracts major English-language art periodicals, yearbooks,
and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian,
German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Provides access to a wide
range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports
of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and
film reviews.
Abstracts since 1994. Some full-text articles since 1997. Reproductions
indexed. Shows Wellesley holdings.
ARTbibliographies
ModernWC 1974+
Modern & contemporary architecture, artists, art movements, art history
and theory, design, photography, new media and crafts dating from the
late 19th century onwards.
Bibliography
of the History of Art (BHA)WC 1973+
Covers the art and architecture of Europe and the Americas (4th century
to modern) cited from art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations,
exhibitions and dealers' catalogs, and journal articles.
Academic Search Premier - dates vary
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of
coverage vary by title.
Periodicals
Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index)
WC - 1665-1995, coverage varies.
Index to articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the humanities & social
sciences in 40 languages. Indexing goes back to the first issue of
the journal, some titles go back over 200 years. A number of
the major art and architecture journals (i.e. Architectural Forum, Architectural
Record, The Journal of the American Society of Architectural
Historians, Journal of Urban History) are
included in this database. Includes the complete table of contents
for each
issue
of each
journal.
AH
Search: Arts & HumanitiesWC 1980+
Online equivalent of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Contains bibliographic
citations of articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews
from arts and humanities journals. Also provides the ability to search
by cited author
JSTOR.
WC - coverage varies.
Use this to find articles in selected scholarly literature journals (i.e.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Assemblage, American Art)
written prior to about the last five years. JSTOR is an archive
of back issues of selected journals containing full-text humanities,
social sciences, and natural science journals. The years will vary
from
the first issues of the listed journal titles but will most likely NOT
have any from the latest 5 years.
Oxford Art OnlineWC
Through Oxford Art Online, you are now able to cross search and browse a suite of
valuable art reference publications simultaneously with Grove Art Online:
The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,and
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online also enhances your capacity to search through a behind-the-scenes thesaurus, a
sophisticated fielded bibliography search, as well as an improved advanced search function.
Grove Art Online WC
Articles on fine, decorative & ethnic arts, architecture, and more,
with searchable text
ARTstorWC
A digital web resource that contains more than 300,000
images of world art, architecture, design, photographs, and other forms
of visual culture. Images are drawn from sources such as museums, archaeological
teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.
Digital Images Collections Wiki - created by Wellesley College's Visual
Resources Dept.
Iter
: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance WC1859+
Contains citations to articles on architecture of the Middle Ages and
Renaissance (400-1700 A.D.) from hundreds of scholarly journals.
Other databases may
be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. Please
visit the Databases A-Z
list of databases or visit AskUs and get
some customized suggestions.
Internet links
Architecture and
Building (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Topics covered include architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management,
green design and energy efficiency, and landscape architecture
The
Art Source (University of Kentucky)
A gathering point for networked resources in Art and Architecture. Quite
well selected and organized.
Society of Architectural
Historians Net Resources
This page organized by the Society of Architectural Historians links architecture
resources focused on reference information, collections, image compendia,
specific architects, and texts.
Artcyclopedia
Text about and images by over 7500 artists and architects
ArchNet
ArchNet is a web project produced by MIT and Harvard and is "the world's
largest online repository of information on Islamic architecture, city
planning
and landscape." Sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
Art
and Architecture Thesaurus Browser (Getty Research Institute)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts.
Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials.
The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global.
ArtLex Art Dictionary
Definitions for over 3100 terms used in visual art, along with images
and pronunciation notes.
The Great Buildings Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a
thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images
and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and
structures of all kinds.
Union
List of Artists' Names (Getty Research Institute)
Authority file of over 200,000 artists' names developed by a variety of
bibliographic authorities.
Contact
the departmental Library liaison
For help
with your research or to schedule a library research session for your
class, or to discuss acquiring particular resources, contact Brooke Henderson, x3258, library
liaison for Architecture.
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