Art & Art History

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An encyclopedia that also contains the Merriam-Webster?s Collegiate Dictionary, a thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other reliable sources.

Find general information to start your art research. This art encyclopedia is updated regularly and covers global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.

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The Getty Research Institute provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Rpertoire international de la littrature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. These citation databases, searchable together, BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

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Find general information to start your art research. This art encyclopedia is updated regularly and covers global art and architecture from prehistory to present day.

Find articles and books on a variety of art topics. This database is especially good for specialized research on European and American Art from antiquity to the present and global art since 1945. Full text is not included but may be accessed via the library?s main search box or interlibrary loan. International Bibliography of Art indexes published research from 2008 to the present and is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).