WU Senior Theses in Art History
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Dissertation by a Willamette Alumna
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Unaccountable Modernisms: The Black Arts of Post-Civil Rights Alabama byPublication Date: 2018
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Art History: Alisa AlexanderFrom Willamette to the University of California's doctoral program in Art History
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Literary & Criitical Theories
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & CriticismOffers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.
Major Art History Reference Books
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Dictionary of ArtCall Number: Ref N 31 .D5 1996ISBN: 1884446000The 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 AestheticsCall Number: Hatfield Library Reference BH56 .E53 1998ISBN: 0195113071Publication Date: 1998 -
New Dictionary of the History of IdeasCall Number: Hatfield Library Reference CB9 .N49 2005ISBN: 0684313774Publication Date: 2004This is also available online. -
The Oxford Companion to Western Art by Call Number: HAT Reference N33 .O923 2001Publication Date: 2001Contains 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 ArtCall Number: Ref. N7560 .H34 1974ISBN: 0813343933Publication Date: 2007Emphasizes 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 IconographyCall Number: Ref. N 7565 .E53 1998ISBN: 1579580092Compares 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.
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