Bibliography
Literature of Art History | Core Bibliography
© 1998-2008 Lee Sorensen, Duke University Libraries
§ = electronic database open to Duke researchers only
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I. Bibliography |
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Indexing Sources |
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General, including Art |
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Art Literature Studies |
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Readers (collected essays for an overview of art) |
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Encyclopedias of Art |
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Scholarly Encyclopedias |
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Ancillary Disciplines |
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Dictionaries |
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Writing Guides |
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Archives & Collections |
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Biographies |
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General |
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Museums/Organizations |
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Auction Indexes |
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Auction Records |
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Signatures and Marks |
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Reference Works |
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Prints
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Locating Images
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Image Theory
Publishing Initiatives (Series worth remembering) |
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III. Internet |
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Guides to Searching |
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I. Bibliography General ONLINE |
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Worldcat (Online Consortia for Library Catalogs) § |
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Google Scholar - Google Corp's inventory of books online. General subject as well as art history. |
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British Library. The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975. 360 vols. New York : K.G. Saur, 1979-1987. Perkins Reference --- Quarto 018.1 B862, G326, 1979 |
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints. London, Mansell. 1968-75. Perkins --- Oversize 018.1 U58CB |
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Goff, Frederick. Incunabula in American Libraries; a Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections. Reproduced from the annotated copy maintained by Frederick R. Goff, compiler and editor. Millwood, N.Y., Kraus Reprint Co., 1973 [c1964] Perkins Reference --- Quarto 016.093 S857C |
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Global Books in Print § Reference Website http://www.globalbooksinprint.com/bip/default.asp |
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Books in Print. New York, R. R. Bowker Co. 1948- . Perkins Reference --- 015.73 P976B, Lilly Ready Reference --- 015.73 P976B |
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Les Livres disponibles = French Books in Print. Paris: Cercle de la librairie. 1977- Perkins Reference --- q 015.44 L784x |
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Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher. = Subject Guide to German Books in Print . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag der Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 1979- . Perkins Reference --- 015.43 V574S |
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Whitaker's Books in Print. London: J. Whitaker & Sons, Ltd., 1988- Perkins --- 015.42 R332 , Perkins Reference --- 015.42 R332 |
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~n.b. Amazon.com, Barnes&nobel.com, and other electronic vendors are selective in what they offer, particularly within the research fields. |
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Art & Art-useful Bibliography |
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Guide to the literature of art history 2. Max Marmor, Alex Ross. Chicago : American Library Association, 2005. Lilly N380 .M374 2004 |
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Guide to the Literature of Art History. Arntzen, Etta and Robert Rainwater. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. Lilly Reference --- 016.709 A767, G946, 1980, Perkins Reference --- Quarto 016.709 A767, G946, 1980 |
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Art books, 1876-1949: Including an International Index of Current Serial Publications. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., c1981. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 A784, 1981 |
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Art books, 1950-1979: Including an International Directory of Museum Permanent Collection Catalogs. New York and London : Bowker, c1979. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 A784, 1979 Art books 1980-1984: Including an International Index of Current and Ceased Serial Publications. New York : Bowker, c1985. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 A784, 1985 |
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Balay, Robert, ed. Guide to reference books. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. |
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Besterman, Theodore. Art and Architecture: A bibliography of Bibliographies. Totowa, NJ: Rowaman & Littlefield, 1971. Library Service Center --- 016.7 B561A |
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___. Old Art Books: Collected and Catalogued by Theodore Besterman. London : Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1975. Special Collections Library --- Biblio fB561O |
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Chamberlin, Mary W. Guide to Art Rreference Books. Chicago: American Library Association, 1959. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 C443G |
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Cicognara, Leopoldo. Catalogo ragionato dei Libri d'Arte e d'Antichita. 2 vols. Pisa: Capurro, 1821. Reprint, Leipzig, K. W. Hiersemann, 1931; Cosenza: Casa del libro, 1960. Lilly --- 016.7 C568C |
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Freitag, Wolfgang. Art Books: a Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists. 2nd ed. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1264. New York: Garland, 1997. Lilly Ready Reference --- 016.9092 A784, 1997 |
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Jones, Lois Swan. Art Information : Research Methods and Resources. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., c1990. Lilly Ready Reference --- 707.2 J77, A784, 1990 see also the internet guide section |
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Lucas, Edna Louise. Books on Art; a Foundation List. (Harvard-Radcliffe fine arts series). Cambridge, Mass., Fogg museum of art, Harvard university, 1938. Library Service Center --- 016.7 L933B |
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[South Kensington Museum] = National Art Library (Great Britain). [First Proofs of the] Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. 3 vols. reprint, New York, B. Franklin [1964] (Burt Franklin bibliography and reference series, #47).: Edited by J. H. Pollen. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 V645U |
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Indexing Sources (formerly "Periodicals Indexes")
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GENERAL - USEFUL FOR ART FULL-TEXT
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Expanded academic ASAP. [electronic www file.] Foster City, Calif.: Information Access Company. |
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ProQuest § Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. |
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LexisNexis Academic § [electronic www file.] Dayton, OH : LEXIS-NEXIS. |
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American humanities index online, 1975- [electronic resource]. New York : Whitston Publishing Co., 2000- |
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ART ONLINE |
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Art Abstracts Databases (combined) see also, PRINT sources |
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Art Abstracts § [Art/Architecture databases list] Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1984. |
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Art Index Retrospective § [Art/Architecture databases list] |
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ARTbibliographies modern § [Art/Architecture databases list] |
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index. § [Art/Architecture databases list] |
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L'année philologique. vol. 40 (1969-2001). Earlier volumes, see hardcopy. |
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals § [Art/Architecture databases list] |
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Bibliography of the History of Art § [Art/Architecture databases list] |
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DYABOLA § Ennepetal: Biering und Brinkmann. |
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Index of Christian Art § [Art/Architecture databases list] Princeton University. Getty Research Institute. |
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Index to 19th-century American Art Periodicals § [Art/Architecture databases list] Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 1998. |
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International Medieval Bibliography § International Medieval Institute; Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 1967- International medieval bibliography |
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Art Index. (hardcopy) New York, H. W. Wilson, 1933-89 . Lilly Reference Shelved in Room 113 --- 016.7 A784 Online as Art Index Retrospective (1929-84) and Art Abstracts (1985-) |
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African-American Artists on Disc (Web-CD, Lilly Art Station). Igoe, Lynn; Igoe, James, ed. New York, NY: G.K. Hall & Co., Lilly Computer disk --- C121 |
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L'année philologique. vol. 1- (1924-2000). see online version, above. Perkins Reference Index Area --- 880.21 M356A |
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Serial (Journal backrun) Holdings |
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Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada. 3rd ed. 4 vols. American Library Association. New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 1965 Lilly Reference --- 016.05 U58A, Perkins Reference --- Oversize 016.05 U58A, and additional holdings at the Vesic, Marine Lab and Medical Center Libraries. |
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Art Literature Studies |
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Keinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. (Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2). Chicago: American Library Association, 1982. Lilly Reference --- 709 K64, R432, 1982 |
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Lützeler, Heinrich. Kunsterfahrung und Kunstwissenschaft : systematische und entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellung und Dokumentation des Umgangs mit der bildenden Kunst. Freiburg : K. Alber, 1975. Lilly --- 709 L948K |
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Schlosser, Julius. Die Kunstliteratur: ein Handbuch zur Quellenkunde der neueren Kunstgeschichte. Vienna: A. Schroll & Co., 1924. Lilly --- 709 S345K |
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Readers (collected essays for an overview of art) |
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Art history: selected readings. compiled by Brucia Witthoft. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1986. Lilly 709 A784, 1986 Nice collection of essays (includes Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankamum), by major art historians. Excerpts of Wölfflin and a Roslyn Krauss essay. |
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Art history: an anthology of modern criticism. Edited, and with introductory notes, by Wylie Sypher. Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1975, [first ed, Vantage,1963]. Lilly 709 S994, A784, 1975 Surveys of essays by some of the great art historians, many in translations there alone, including Dagobert Frey. |
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German essays on art history. Edited by Gert Schiff. New York : Continuum, 1988. Perkins 830.8 G373, 1982, v. 79 |
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Critical perspectives on art history. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002. Lilly 709 C934, 2002 |
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Modern perspectives in Western art history; an anthology of 20th-century writings on the visual arts. Edited and with an introduction by W. Eugene Kleinbauer. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1971] Lilly 704.92 K64, M689, 1971 Selected essays in the more serious aspects of art. Nice survey of the literature at the beginning. |
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Commentaries Commentaries on the discipline of art history which include bibliography |
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Johnson, W. McAllister. Art History: Its Use and Abuse . Toronto; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1988. Lilly --- 707.2 J71, A784, 1988 |
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Preziosi, Donald. Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Lilly --- 707.2 P944, R438, 1989 |
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"Crisis in the Discipline [series]." Art Bulletin. Ridgway, Brunhilde Sismondo. "The State of Research on Ancient Art" (initial essay) 68 (March 1986): 7-23, and response, Hood, William. "In Defense of Art History: A Response to Brunhilde Sismondo Ridgway" 68 (September 1986): 480-481, reply 481-482. Also, Cropper, Elizabeth and Charles Dempsey. "Italian Painting of the Seventeenth Century" 69 (December 1987): 494-509; Gouma-Peterson, Thalia, and Patricia Mathews. "The Feminist Critique of Art History" 69 (September 1987): 326-357; Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. "Norther Baroque Art" 69 (December 1987): 510-519; Hindman, Sandra. "This Illustrated Book: an Addendum to the State of Research in Northern Renaissance Art" 68 (December 1986): 536-542; Hood, William. "Italian Renaissance Art" 69 (June 1987): 174-186; Kuspit, Donald. "Conflicting Logic: Twentieth Century Art at the Cross Roads" 69 (March 1987): 117-132; Shiff, Richard. "Art History and teh Nineteenth Century: Realism and Resistance" 70 (March 1988): 25-49; Silver, Larry. "Northern European Art of the Renaissance Era" 68 (December 1986): 518-535; Spector, Jack. "The State of Psychoanalytic Research in Art History" 70 (March 1988): 49-76; Stafford, Barbara Maria. "The Eighteenth Century: Towards an Interdisciplinary Model" 70 (March 1988): 6-25. |
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"A Range of Critical Perspectives [series]" Art Bulletin 77 (full year). Lilly Periodicals |
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Lincoln, Betty Woelk. Festschriften in Art History, 1960-1975 : Bibliography and Index. New York: Garland Pub., 1988. Lilly --- 016.7 L736, F418, 1988, Lilly Reference --- 016.7 L736, F418, 1988 |
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Rave, Paul Ortwin. Kunstgeschichte in Festschriften; allgemeine Bibliographie kunstwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen in den bis 1960 erschienenen Festschriften, unter Mitarbeit von Barabara Stein. Berlin, Gebr. Mann, 1962. Lilly --- 016.7 R252K, Lilly Reference --- 016.7 R252K |
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Prause, Marianne. Bibliographie zur Kunstgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts: Publikationen der Jahre 1967-1979 mit Nachtrdgen zu den Jahren 1940-1966. (Materialien zur Kunst des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ; Bd. 31). Munich: Prestel-Verlag, c1984. Lilly --- 016.709034 P918, B582, 1984 |
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(see also, South Kensington Museum, in "Bibliographies" section, above). |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Library. Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2d ed., rev. and enl. 48 Vols. Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall, 1980. Lilly Reference --- [Shelved in Lilly Room 113] 016.7081 N567, L697, 1980, suppl. |
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Freer Gallery of Art. Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution [microfiche]. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1991. 2nd enl. ed., on microfiche. Lilly Reference --- 016.7095 F856, D554, 1991 |
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Harvard University. Fine Arts Library. Catalogue of the Harvard University Fine Arts Library, the Fogg Art Museum. Published: Boston, G. K. Hall, 1971. Lilly Reference --- 016.7 H339C, suppl. |
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Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Römische Abteilung. Kataloge der Bibliothek des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts Rom; systematischer Katalog. 3 vols. Boston, G. K. Hall, 1969. Perkins --- Oversize z913.38 D486KB |
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Encyclopedias of Art |
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The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York : Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. Lilly Reference --- 703 D554, 1996, Perkins Reference --- 703 D554, 1996 |
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Encyclopedia of World Art. 15 vols. + suppls. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959-68. Lilly Reference --- 703 E56, Perkins Reference --- 703 E56, 1959, Divinity Reference --- 703 E56, 1959 |
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Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale. 7 [original] vols + suppls. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana [1958-1966]. Lilly Reference --- 709.3 E56, 1958 |
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Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale. 9 vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 1991- Lilly Reference --- 709.0203 E56, 1991, Divinity Reference --- Quarto 709.0203 E56, 1991 |
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Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti .... Rome: Istituto Giovanni Treccani, 1929-39. 12 vols. Lilly Reference --- 035 E56, Perkins Reference --- Quarto 035 E56 |
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The Catholic Encyclopedia: an International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church / edited by Charles G. Herbermann. New York: Encyclopedia Press, 1913-1914. This edition only! Divinity Reference --- 282 C363, Library Service Center --- 282.0321 C363, 1913 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ |
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see, http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/artlibry/dah/screens/explain.htm#Bibliography for the most complete list. |
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The Early Years of Art History in the United States: Notes and Essays on Departments, Teaching, and Scholars. Craig Hugh Smyth and Peter M. Lukehart, eds.. Princeton, N.J. : Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, c1993. Lilly --- 707.2 E12, 1993 |
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Munro, Thomas. The Arts and their Interrelations. 2nd ed. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965. |
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Kultermann, Udo. Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte: Der Weg einer Wissenschaft. Vienna and Düsseldorf: Econ, [1966]. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main and Vienna: Ullstein, 1981. English: The History of Art History. [New York]: Abaris Books, c1993. Lilly --- 709 K96, G389, 1990 & Lilly --- 707.2 K96, G389, 1993 |
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Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art: de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: A. Michel, 1986. Lilly --- 709.03 B363, H673, 1986 |
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Watkin, David. The Rise of Architectural History. London: Architectural, Press, 1980. Lilly --- 720.72042 W335, R595, 1983 |
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Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987 ff.) Locations & call numbers vary, check online catalog for specific fields. |
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Roberts, Helene E. Iconographic Index to Old Testament subjects represented in photographs and slides of paintings in the visual collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; vol. 729. New York: Garland, 1987. Divinity --- Quarto 755.4 R644, I17, 1987 |
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Medieval scholarship: biographical studies on the formation of a discipline. New York : Garland Pub., 1995-2000. Perkins --- 909.0707202 M489, 1995 |
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Tufts, Eleanor. American Women Artists, Past and Present: a Selected Bibliographic Guide. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; vol. 1123. New York: Garland Pub., 1989. Lilly Reference --- 016.704042 T914, A512, 1984, Perkins Reference --- 016.704042 T914, A512, 1984 |
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Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture : an annotated bibliography and historiography. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1992. Lilly Reference --- 016.7231 K64, E12, 1992 |
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