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Beginnings - Reference Sources

Scholarly Encyclopedias

Oxford Art Online
- Core art databases, searchable uniformly or individually, produced by Oxford University Press.  Includes many topics for Picasso and Cubism, including biographies, explanations of media, events.

Oxford Reference Online
~ Art reference books migrated to electronic form. Topics include performing arts (Ballets russes), historical events, etc . 

Encyclopedia of World Art.  18 vols.  New York, McGraw-Hill [1959-c1987]  Lilly Library Reference N31 .E4833 1959 
~ Although older essays, excellent essays (particularly for formal views of Picasso's art)

 

Pelican History of Art 
~  one of the long-established English-language surveys of art history.  Great for "further readings" or an overview to supplement notes or background information.


Green, Christopher.  Art in France, 1900-1940 / Christopher Green.  New Haven  : Yale University Press, c2000.   Lilly Library Reference | N5300 .P456 v.11  
~ treats the art period(s) surrounding Picasso's artistic life; excellent for context.

 

 

Specialized Reference

Primary Sources      Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 -- Sources. 

A cubism reader : documents and criticism, 1906-1914 / edited by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten ; translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd ; additional translations by Jason Gaiger ... [et al.].  Published  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.  N6494.C8 C75 2008

Karmel, Pepe.  Picasso and the invention of Cubism / Pepe Karmel.  New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.  Lilly Library: ND553.P5 K265 2003   

Exhibitions     Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Gordon, Donald E.   Modern art exhibitions: 1900-1916; selected catalogue documentation [by] Donald E. Gordon.   München, Prestel, 1974.   Lilly Library Reference  N6490 .G62 1974  
 

Criticism     Art, Modern -- Bio-bibliography.    Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography.    Artists -- Directories.   Art criticism -- Periodicals.

Modern arts criticism.  Detroit, MI : Gale Research, 1991-    Lilly Library Reference Reference  N40 .M63

  

 

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