CCAD Packard Library: Contemporary Art & Theory: 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 Reference Sources

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.

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
Based in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, this site fosters and circulates research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada in the period prior to 1967.
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.
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.

Terms & Ideas

ArtSpeak : a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present by Robert Atkins
Call Number: 700.9045 At53a,2013
ISBN: 0789211505

The Art Story: Modern Art Insight
The Art Story is a New York-based educational non-profit organization founded in 2009 to demystify Modern Art and further art appreciation.

Universal Principles of Art : 100 key concepts for understanding, analyzing, and practicing art by John A. A. Parks
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781631590306