Online Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Provides the full text of 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and photography) from prehistory to the present day.
- Includes more than 100,000 fine art images from the Bridgeman Art Library as well as thousands of external image links
- Updated daily
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
- Based on the Oxford Dictionary of Art.
- Contains brief definitions of over 2,500 terms in Western Art from ancient Greece to present day.
- Published in 2003.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- Provides concise definitions for over 1,800 art terms from Baroque to Postmodernism.
- Published in 2001.
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Covers all periods of Western architectural history.
- Published in 2006.
- Covers the past 150 years of international design, focusing on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion.
- Published in 2004.
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
- Provides broad coverage of painting, sculpture and graphic art, with entries covering all major movements and styles of the twentieth-century.
- Published in 1998.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
- Covers all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day.
- Published in 2006.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
- Covers photography as a social, artistic, and techical practice.
- Published in 2005.
- Contains over 2,500 entries covering a variety of topics in Western art, including artists and their works, movements and art terms.
- Published in 2001.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
- Provides 945 entries on artists, institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, movements, and famous collectors.
- Published in 2007.
- Provides over 3,800 entries on the art of the Western world from the classical times to the present.
- Published in 2004.
