Key Electronic Reference Resources in Studio Art & Art History
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Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowA searchable, regularly updated electronic version of Grove's Dictionary of Art, this is the key electronic reference source for visual art.
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Oxford Reference Online - Art & ArchitectureFull text editions of Oxford Art reference works; dictionaries, encyclopedias, and companions range from the specific (Oxford Companion to the Photograph) to the wide-ranging (Concise Oxford Dictionary to Art Terms).
Selected Print Reference Works
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Source Book of American Architecture
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This illustrated survey of 500 of America's most distinguished buildings provides a unique overview of the thousand-year architectural development of the United States. It examines our nation's architecture from its earliest days to the present, ranging from cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde to Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago to James Ingo Freed's Holocaust Museum in Washington. Indispensable in any library, it also serves as a general introduction to American architecture or as a splendid guide for tourists.
Call Number: Reference NA705 .S578 1996Publication Date: 1996 -
Architects of Oregon
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Architects of Oregon is an exhaustive collection of biographicals sketches of architects who practiced in Oregon during the 19th and 20th centuries.Profiled are the men and women who designed the town-building structures of the frontier 1800s, the civic landmarks of the turn of the century and the precedent-setting modern office towers of the mid-20th century.Contains the biographies of over 650 designers including such renowned practitioners as AE Doyle, Pietro Belluschi, Wade Pipes, John Yeon and others.
Call Number: Reference NA730.O7 R58 2003Publication Date: 2003 -
The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
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Discusses the features associated with various types of American homes.
Call Number: Reference NA7205 .C37 1997Publication Date: 1995
