2. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Guides
AskART
Biographical and bibliographical information for more than 52,00 American artists. Searchable by artist name. Includes information about museum holdings and auction sales. Available in both free and subscription versions. For subscription access, please see the Reference Librarian.
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Full-text, searchable version of the nine volume Encyclopaedia of Islam (RFA50.23.50) including volumes for Addenda & Corrigenda, Glossary & Index of Terms, Index of Proper Names, and Index of Subjects. Contains over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Grove Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art is a comprehensive art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography from prehistory to the 1990s. Global coverage includes the arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Pacific, and Europe. In addition, influences on the production of art such as trade, geography, history and politics are fully addressed, helping to place art in context and further a broad understanding of the history of artistic endeavor. Grove Art Online provides the capability to search the updated 41,000 articles that appeared in the original printed version of the Dictionary as well as the content of the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary or Art Terms, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. The text of Grove Art Online and its more than 500,000 bibliographical references is updated regularly. Grove Art Online also includes significant digital image collections with searchable links to works from over 40,000 museums, galleries, and art collections around the world.
Oxford Reference Online Premium
Oxford Reference Online Premium contains dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of all works included. A broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions Series is available, including the following art and architecture texts: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, A Dictionary of Modern Design, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, The Oxford Companion to the Garden and The Oxford Companion to the Photograph.
Photographers Encyclopaedia International
Contains biographies, exhibition lists, bibliographies and addresses of more than 3,000 photographers. Also included is slightly less complete information for an additional 3,000 other photographers. Additional features include a chronology of the history of photography, a lexicon of processes, and more than 5,900 images.
This CD-ROM database is available in the Visual Resources Department, located on the mezzanine level of the Fine Arts Library.
Photographica: Research Guide for Photography@Harvard
Photographica is an interactive research guide for photographic studies research, created by Harvard College librarians in collaboration with Harvard faculty and departments.
