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FINE ART
Bibliography
The purpose of this bibliography is to help you locate information on fine art through the
use of carefully selected reference sources available in the ATS, Bailey and Wilson
Library. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask a Reference
Librarian for help.
FULLTEXT DATABASES
EbscoHost
Academic Search Premier
Online: 1975 to date.
It provides full text for more than 4,650 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peerreviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred
journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles
FirstSearch
WilsonSelectPlus
Online
Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles, many of
which are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
REF784.061 C21
Art-song in the United States, 1801-1976: an annotated bibliography
(Bailey Ref.)
REF709.6 In8
A bibliography of African art; (Bailey Ref.)
REF246.016 K14
A bibliography of sources in Christianity and the arts
(Bailey Ref.)
REF700.16 Eh8 1990
Fine arts: a bibliographic guide to basic reference works, histories,
and handbooks (Bailey Ref.)
REF220 B45
In remembrance of creation; evolution of art and scholarship in the
Medieval and Renaissance Bible (Bailey Ref.)
DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
REF703 C74
The Concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists.
(Bailey Ref.)
REF759.06 Se8
Dictionary of abstract painting : with a history of abstract
painting (Bailey Ref.)
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REF N31.D5 1996
REF 703 D56
The dictionary of art (Bailey / Wilson Ref.)
REF 745.03 St7
Dictionary of arts and crafts (Bailey Ref.)
REF703 H14
Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art (Bailey Ref.)
REF 703 W83
Dictionary of the arts: with an introduction (Bailey Ref.)
REF N7793.W65A66 N42 Dictionary of women in religious art (Wilson Ref.)
REF 709.04 G91
The Grove dictionary of art. From expressionism to post modernism :
styles and movements in 20th-century Western art (Bailey Ref.)
REF 709 G91
The Grove dictionary of art. From Renaissance to Impressionism :
styles and movements in western art 1400-1900 (Bailey Ref.)
REF703 Os 1
The Oxford companion to art; (Bailey Ref.)
REF DF521.O93 1991
The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium (ATS Ref.)
REF709 F86
The Penguin concise dictionary of art history (Bailey Ref.)
REF703 L26
The Yale dictionary of art and artists (Bailey Ref.)
REF703 L26
Benét's reader's encyclopedia. (ATS Ref.)
REF704.9 Enl
REF703 R87
Encyclopedia of comparative iconography : themes depicted in works
of art (Bailey Ref.)
Encyclopedia of the arts, (Bailey Ref.)
REF703
Encyclopedia of world art (Bailey Ref.)
REF709.02 H98
Larousse encyclopedia of Byzantine and medieval art
(Bailey Ref.)
REF709.04 H98
Larousse encyclopedia of modern art, from 1800 to the present day
(Bailey Ref.)
REF709.01 H98
Larousse encyclopedia of prehistoric and ancient art; art and
mankind (Bailey Ref.)
REF709.02 H98r
Larousse encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque art
(Bailey Ref.)
REF703 p
The Praeger picture encyclopedia of art (Bailey Ref.)
REF803 B43a2
The reader's encyclopedia (Bailey Ref.)
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REF803 B43
REF E185 .I575x 1968
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The reader's encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of world literature and
the arts (Bailey Ref.)
The Negro in music and art. (Wilson Ref.)
MUSEUM
REF 759.13 M56
American paintings; a catalogue of the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. (Bailey Ref.)
REF DF261.C65 P37x 1981 Ancient Corinth : the museums of Corinth, Isthmia and Sicyon
(Wilson Ref.)
REF 758.9 m
Art treasures of the Metropolitan; a selection from the European
and Asiatic collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Bailey Ref.)
REF 069.097471N42
New York City museum guide. (Bailey Ref.)
REF 069.025 Of2
The official museum directory. (Bailey Ref.)
REF L901.P459
REF 378.1553 P44b
Peterson's graduate programs in business, education,
health, information studies, law & social work.
(ATS /Bailey/Wilson Ref.)
HANDBOOKS
REF N8010.S54 1975
REF 704.9482 Si3
A handbook of symbols in Christian art
(Wilson / Bailey Ref.)
VIDEOGRAPHIES
REF 700.16 V66
Videos on art. 1996. (Bailey Ref.)
RESOURCES ON SPECIFIC ART MEDIA
Computer Illustrations / Graphic arts
REF 004.03 H19
The dictionary of computing & digital media. (Bailey Ref.)
REF 006.703 H 19
The dictionary of multimedia : (ATS / Bailey Ref.)
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ONLINE CATALOG
If you are interested in finding other materials on art, you may want to search the
Library’s online catalog. One way to search for materials is by subject heading. To do
this, double click “Online Catalog” on the right side of the library service list, click
“Basic Search,” then select “Subject heading” from the menu of options, and type in your
subject of interest. Here are a few possibilities:
Art, American
Art and religion
Art, Modern – 20th century
Art – United States
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Women in art
Dewey and Library of Congress (LC) Classification
If you would like to browse the Library’s stacks for books on business and economics,
the following listing of call numbers might help get you started in the right area.
Dewey
numbers
(Bailey library)
700
730
740
750
760
770
Subjects
LC numbers
(ATS & Wilson)
The arts, Fine and decorative arts
Plastic arts, Sculpture
Drawing & decorative arts
Painting & paintings
Graphic arts, Prints
Photography & photographs
H-HJ
TR640-688
JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS (only current subscriptions are listed)
All of the following journals and newpapers are kept in the Bailey Library, Wilson
Library users can request articles through Inter Campus Delivery Online request form.
American Artist
American Music
American Music Teacher
American Musical Society (AMS)
Newsletter
American Organist
American String Teacher
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Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Journal of Church Music
Journal of Research in Music Education
Journal of Research in Singing and
Applied Vocal Pedagogy
Journal of Singing
Journal of the American Musicological
Society
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Art Education
Arts and Activities
Bach
Back Stage
Bulletin of the Council for Research in
Music Education
Choral Journal
Christianity and the Arts
Church Musician
Church Musician Today
Clavier
College Music Symposium
Drama Review: See TDR ? The Drama
Review
Dramatist
Dramatists Guild Quarterly
Guitar Review
Hymn
Image: Journal of the Arts and Religion
Instrumentalist
Keyboard Magazine
Medical Problems of Performing Artists
Music: The AGO Magazine
Music Educators Journal
Music Journal
Musical Quarterly
Musical Times
Opera News
Performing Arts Journal
Perspectives of New Music
Piano and Keyboard
Piano Guild Notes
Piano Quarterly
Popular Photography
School Arts
School Music News
Smithsonian
Voice of Chorus America
FREE DATABASES & OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES
Art, Image, & Architecture
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus - The Art & Architecture Thesaurus
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN), and the
Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN) are structured vocabularies that can be used to improve access to
information about art, architecture, and material culture.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
ARTCYCLOPEDIA: The Fine Art Search Engine
compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives,
and other online resources. It has been indexed 1800 art sites, and offer over 60,000 links to an estimated
150,000 artworks by 8,100 renowned artists. This site was created by John Malyon, an IT professional.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos
CalPhotos
CalPhotos is a collection of 92,323 images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes. A variety of
organizations and individuals have contributed photographs to CalPhotos. Created by Digital Library
Project at University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/image_projects.html
Clearinghouse of Image Database
a listserv that was started in 1994 as a way for librarians and information technologists to share ideas, ask
questions, and report on imaging projects. There are approximately 950 subscribers from around the world
representing a variety of disciplines and professions. Their common interest is imaging.
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http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/index.html
Image Collections (Digital South Asia Library)
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to
scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This site is maintained by the University of
Chicago.
http://www.informedesign.umn.edu
InformeDesign
Interior Design Research Resource is a research and communication tool for designers. Created by the
University of Minnesota.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco
The Picture Collection
Comprised of illustrations from books, newspapers and magazines as well as photographs, prints and
postcards, the Picture Collection is a visual resource, encyclopedic in scope and arranged by subject.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan
Union List of Artist Names Online
The programs of the J. Paul Getty Trust focus on the visual arts in all of their dimensions, serving both
general audiences and specialized professionals.
Dance
http://catnyp.nypl.org/search~b1o1c1i1p1r1a1
Dance Collection Catalog
It lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. It includes materials in
many languages and serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals.
Drama, Film, & Television
http://www.newyorker.com/online/filmfile/?030317onremo_index
The Film File
It collects nearly two thousand short reviews of films released from 1990 to the present.
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
Internet Archive: Movie Collection
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay
Inter-Play
Sponsored by Portland State University, this site provides an index to plays in collections,
anthologies, and periodicals. It presently contains more than 33,000 citations to plays by over
4000 playwrights. The plays in the database cover those from many different countries written in a
wide variety of languages.
http://www.mptv.net/main/main_elements/mainpage.htm
Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive
The aim of MPTV is to provide a permanent photography center with a special emphasis on the Hollywood
photograph and the creative achievements of the Photographers.
http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews
The New York Times Movie Reviews
Browse or search 15,000 New York Times movie reviews. Included in the free review archive are all films reviewed since
1960, reviews of all Best Pictures Academy Award winners, as well as The New York Times guide to the Best 1,000
Movies Ever Made.
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http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Vanderbilt University is sponsor for this site. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network
evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN,
and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews
Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews
The University of Maryland women's studies web site, begun in September 1992, serves those people
interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
Music
www.aria-database.com
Aria Database
It is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers
alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI
(musical instrument digital interface) files of operatic arias and ensembles.
http://imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.html
CAIRSS for Music
CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology,
music therapy, and music medicine. Citations have been taken from 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of
which are primary journals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included. Sponsored by the
University of Texas at San Antonio.
http://www.cyberhymnal.org
The Cyber Hymnal
This site has over 5,100 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics,
scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, & more.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
Containing more than 12,000 records, DDM online is an international database of bibliographic records for
completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and
ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines. Sponsored by School
of Music at Indiana University
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/OVI
Opera Del Vocabolario Italiano
The database contains 1849 vernacular texts (21.2 million words, 479,000 unique forms)
the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. This site is
maintained by the University of Chicago.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/ihashome.html
I Hear America Singing
This Web site invites visitors to experience the diversity of American performing arts through the Library
of Congress's unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, maps,
and other materials.
http://www.karadar.com/Default.htm
Karadar Classical Music
This site provides composer biographies, opera’s libretto, lieder texts, works catalogues, free MP3
downloads, and many others…
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http://www.milkenarchive.org
Milken Archive: American Jewish Music
the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is an international undertaking to record, preserve and
distribute a vast cross-section, comprising hundreds of outstanding pieces of American Jewish music from
the past 350 years. Lowell Milken is the founder of this archive.
http://www.fmpweb.hsd.uvic.ca/merb
Music Education Resource Base
Supported by University of Victoria in Canada, it is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources
in music and music education from 35 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the
period 1956 through the present.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/research.html
Music Research Databases
William and Gayle Cook Music Library at Indiana University School of Music sponsors this music
resource list.
FREE ONLINE TEXT COLLECTIONS
Art
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/_search/search010arta.asp
Art Ebooks
It provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial
publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are
available free.
ARTLEX Art Dictionary
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?N
The Online Books Page
Excellent list of links to the art reference maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.symbols.com/contents.html
Symbols.com Online Encyclopedia
It contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic
characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs
range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
Music
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010musict.asp
Ebooks: Music
It aims to serve as a “meta-index” for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized
sites.
http://www.bardscrier.com/freebies/ebooks.shtml
Free Music Biz Promotion Ebooks
Listed by books on music marketing, promotion, and how to run a business on- and offline. Below are
some of my favorite. And best of all, they are ALL in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?M
The Online Books Page
Excellent links to eBooks on music maintained by the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/4
Project Gutenburg: Sheet Music
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael
Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of
eBooks and related technologies today.
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