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Useful online study resources

Links to J-Stor Articles by Columbia Faculty (subscription based)

		Elizabeth Hutchinson [go to the J-Stor search results]

Columbia University Resources

		CLIO, Columbia's Online Library Information Center

		Image Indices Available on CLIO

General Online Resources

		Bartelby.com offers searching within a repository of research texts including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bullfinche's Mythology and the King James Bible

		xrefer.com This reference site describes itself as a giant online reference library... that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. Titles of interest for the visual arts include:The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 220,000 names and biographical information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) The TGN is a structured vocabulary of around 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

Surveys and Encyclopedia of American Art

(All of these are in Avery or the Fine Arts Library. Most are also in the Barnard Library)

SURVEYS

Baigell, Matthew. A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture, Revised Edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1996.

Baigell, Matthew. Dictionary of American Art. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

Berlo, Janet Catherine and Ruth B. Phillips, Native North American Art. (New York : Oxford
University Press, c1998.

Bjelajac, David. American Art: a Cultural History. New York: Abrams, 2000.

Groseclose, Barbara. Nineteenth-Century American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

McCoubrey, John W., ed. American art, 1700-1960; sources and documents. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,
Prentice-Hall, 1965.

Patton, Sharon. African American Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

Pohl, Frances. Framing America: A Social History of American Art (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002)

Powell, Richard J. Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Tufts, Eleanor. American women artists, past and present : a selected bibliographic guide 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1984-89.

Turner, Jane, ed. Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914. New York: Grove Dictionaries, 1999.

Upton, Dell. Architecture in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

Handbook of American Popular Culture (2nd revised edition). New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Foner, Eric and John A. Garraty, ed.s, Readers’ Companion to American History. Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, 1991.

Fox, Richard Wightman and James T. Kloppenberg, ed.s, A Companion to American Thought. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

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