LCC Research Guides: Art and Art History: Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias on art and artists

We have many excellent reference books in the LCC collection, in print and online. These are good sources for overviews of styles, themes and periods in art history.

Artspeak : a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords
Call Number: N6490 .A87 2014
The Art of Art History
Call Number: N7480 .A79 2009
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan Marter (ed.)
Call Number: REF and ebook

Publication Date: 2011
African American art : Harlem Renaissance, civil rights era, and beyond
Call Number: N6538.N5 S595 2012
Shaping the World : sculpture from prehistory to now by Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
Call Number: NB60 .G67 2020
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art by Lilian H. Zirpolo
Call Number: ebook
Artist's Materials by Lorrainne Harrison
Call Number: N8530 .H37 2005
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art by Gerald W. R. Ward
Call Number: ebook