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ARTH 496: Senior Seminar in Art History: Getting Started

WU Senior Theses in Art History

Senior Theses in Art History

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Literary & Criitical Theories

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

Reference Resources

Listed on this page are key reference resources that provide a general overview of a topic or help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data. These sources often include references and lists of further readings.

Using the Hatfield Library during the Covid 19 Pandemic

Reference / Getting Research Help:

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Major Art History Reference Books

Dictionary of Art
Call Number: Ref N 31 .D5 1996
ISBN: 1884446000
The only comprehensive art reference work in the world. It covers all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990’s in 34 volumes. This is also available online as Grove Art Online.
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
Call Number: Hatfield Library Reference BH56 .E53 1998
ISBN: 0195113071
Publication Date: 1998
This is also available online.
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Call Number: Hatfield Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005
ISBN: 0684313774
Publication Date: 2004
This is also available online.
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Hugh Brigstocke, Ed.
Call Number: HAT Reference N33 .O923 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Contains entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms. This is also available online.
Dictionary of Subject and Symbols in Art
Call Number: Ref. N7560 .H34 1974
ISBN: 0813343933
Publication Date: 2007
Emphasizes Christian and classical subject matter from western art of the Renaissance and later. Greek and Roman mythology, classical heroes, legends and ancient history are also included.
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
Call Number: Ref. N 7565 .E53 1998
ISBN: 1579580092
Compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres.