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Art History Subject Guide
Overview
- 100 ideas that changed art (2012)
- Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists' writings (2012)
- Gardner's art through the ages: the Western perspective (2010)
- The methodologies of art: An introduction (2010)
- What makes a masterpiece: artists, writers and curators on the world's greatest works of art (2010)
- Art past art present (2009)
- 30,000 years of art: the story of human creativity across time and space (2007)
- Mirror of the world: a new history of art (2007)
- The annotated Mona Lisa: a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern (2007)
Non-Western Art
- Gardner's art through the ages: non-Western perspectives (2010)
- Olmec: colossal masterworks of ancient Mexico (2010)
- African masks: the Barbier-Mueller collection (2007)
- Art beyond the West: the arts of Western and Central Asia, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas (2006)
- The year one: art of the ancient world east and west (2000)
Art Dictionaries
Medieval / Renaissance / Baroque / Rococo Art
- Rococo: the continuing curve, 1730-2008 (2008)
- Seventeenth-century art & architecture (2008)
- History of Italian Renaissance art: painting, sculpture, architecture (2007)
- The architecture of the Italian Renaissance (2007)
- Italian frescoes: the age of Giotto, 1280-1400 (2005)
- Medieval art (2004)
- Early medieval art (2002)
- Baroque & Rococo: art & culture (1999)
Impressionism
Modern Art
Contemporary Art
Current Subscriptions
- African Arts (Available online)
- A Journal (Available online)
- Apollo: The International Magazine of the Arts (Available online)
- Art in America (Available online)
- The Artist's Magazine (Available online)
- Artforum (Available online)
- ARTnews
- Arts of Asia
- Design Issues (Available online)
- Fine Art Connoisseur
- The Magazine Antiques (Available online)
- Master Drawings
- Smithsonian (Available online)
Back Issues Only
- Art & Antiques (Available online)
- The Art Bulletin (Available online)
- Art Journal (Available online)
- Art Monthly (Available online)
- FMR International
- Horizon
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
- The New Criterion (Available online)
Art and history movements
- How to look at and understand great art (2011)
- Painters painting: a candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970 (2010)
- Every picture tells a story (2009)
- The private life of a masterpiece (2008)
- Art across the ages (2007)
- Simon Schama's Power of art (2007)
- The great masters of the Italian Renaissance (2007)
- How art made the world: how humans made art and art made us human (2006)
- A history of European art (2005)
- Art of the Western world (2005)
- Art:21: art in the twenty-first century (2001)
Collections and collectors
- La famille Stein: la fabrique de l'arte moderne (2011)
- Herb & Dorothy (2009)
- The rape of Europa (2008)
- The Vatican museums (2006)
- The Saatchi Gallery: highlights of British conceptual art (2005)
- Who gets to call it art?: a film about Henry Geldzahler (2005)
- Hermitage masterpieces (2004)
- Sister Wendy's American collection (2001)
Articles and Reference Resources
- Oxford Art Online – Full Text Online Art Encyclopedia
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
Image Websites
- Academy of Art University Digital Image Resources
- Architecture of the Maya Cities of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labna
- Art Renewal Center (ARC)
- British Museum Collection Database
- Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
- Online Museum Resources on Asian Art
- SFMOMA ArtScope
- Tate Online
- Web Gallery of Art
- WorldImages
Professional Organizations
Other Websites
- Academy of Art University Writing Support
- Writing Lab (on campus): 79 New Montgomery, 3rd floor. The lab is open Monday through Saturday. Make appointments to meet with a tutor to review your writing at http://arc.academyart.edu/writing.
- Online Writing Lab (OWL): Submit up to 500 words of your writing for review at http://arc.academyart.edu/writing/owl.html.
- AAU Library MLA Citation Guide
- LA 120, 121 & 217 Study Guides
- These study guides are password protected. Ask your teachers for the usernames and passwords of these study guides.
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