CCAD Packard Library: Art of Africa & the African Diaspora: Reference

Art & Design History

A digital library images of art, design, history, and architecture.

A comprehensive online resource that offers coverage of interior, industrial, and graphic design and crafts, from 1500 BCE to the present day. Includes Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design and World History of Design.

An online gateway into art research, which provides access to the Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and other resources.

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Art History

Expert recommendation on the best works available in Art History by top scholars.

More Electronic Reference Sources

The Art Story
Contains articles on artists, movements, and times periods that were central to Western art.
ArtxHistory
ArtxHistory is an education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined the mid-century through contemporary art.

AskART Academic This link opens in a new window
Information on historical and contemporary American artists, containing biographies, auction records, images, museum holdings, and bibliographies.
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online
What is cinnabar? What is a rhyton? The Getty thesaurus contains terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Includes maps, time lines, thematic essays, and an index.
HENI Talks
Short films on art history from leading artists, curators, and academics.
Mapping Paintings
Mapping Paintings is an attempt to compile and visualize provenance data for individual artworks, from owners to past locations to details of sales.
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic supplement for the traditional art history text.
WikiArt
A not-for-profit online art encyclopedia.

Selected Reference Books

The African American Almanac
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 9780787640217
Art and artists of South Africa; an illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters and graphic artists since 1875 by Berman, Esmé
Call Number: 709.68 A5,B456a,1970
Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. Volume 1, Africa
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 184788850X
Black artists in the United States : an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and dissertations on Black artists, 1779-1979 by Lenwood G. Davis; Janet L. Sims
Call Number: 709.73 A1,D294b,1980
ISBN: 0313220824
A Companion to Modern African Art by Gitti Salami; Monica Blackmun Visona
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781118515051
A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781118494066
Dictionary of African Biography
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780195382075
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. The text covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia.
Encyclopedia of African American Artists by Dele Jegede
Call Number: 704.0396 J388e,2009
ISBN: 9780313337611
The Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa by Joseph O. Vogel (Editor)
Call Number: 960.2 En19Vo,1997
ISBN: 0761989021
Encyclopedia of the Yoruba
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780253021335
This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art.