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Art Books

If you wish to know more about the general context in which your artist worked, you can consult the catalog for history and culture books to supplement your reading.


History (general or cultural) is found under country name, subdivided chronologically.

United States--History--l865- France--Intellectual Life
France--History--Revolution, l789-l799 France--Social Life and Customs

Works found here are going to be primarily broadly historical and will provide basic cultural information.

Also, if you find references in your reading that you need brief explanations for, we can provide you with historical and cultural dictionaries that will sort out the meanings of groups, events, people, and movements.


Timeline guides may also be useful. They place a variety of occurrences within the larger context.

Below is a selection of our collection you may find interesting.

Reserve

PC709

Ad18a

Adams, Laurie. Art Across Time . 2 nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

759.197

Am34i

Ament, Deloris Tarzan. Iridescent Light : The Emergence of Northwest Art . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.

709.011

Ba148c

Bahn, Paul G. Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998

704.9489

BL623i

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts . London, UK: Phaidon Press, 1997

759.1309

Cr855a

Craven, David. Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent During the McCarthy Period . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Oversized

759.13

Ge313a

Gerdts, William H. American Impressionism . New York: Abbeville Press, 2001.

758.1795

Pa119h

Harmon, Kitty, ed. The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History . Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2001.

Oversized

759.13

Ea617s

Kosinski, Dorothy M. Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20 th Century . New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

709.7309

Po810m

Madoff, Steven Henry, ed. Pop Art: A Critical History . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997

745.44

Ma143d

McDermott, Catherine. Design Museum Book of 20 th Century Design . Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1998.

Reference

902.02

Me487c

Mellersh, H. E. L. Chronology of World History . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.

709.94

Mu972m

Museum of Modern Art, New York: The History and the Collection . New York: Abradale Press, 1997.

704.0396

Pa278a

Patton, Shron F. African-American Art . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.

701.18

Ar75p

Preziosi, Donald, ed. Art of Art History . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.

914.404

St51f

Stich, Sidra. France: Contemporary Art & Architecture Handbook . San Francisco: artSites, 1999.

Reference

902.02

Ti482d
Time Lines on File . New York: Facts on File, 1988.