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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.
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Reserve
PC709
Ad18a |
Adams, Laurie. Art Across Time . 2 nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. |
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759.197
Am34i |
Ament, Deloris Tarzan. Iridescent Light : The Emergence of Northwest Art . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. |
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709.011
Ba148c |
Bahn, Paul G. Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998 |
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704.9489
BL623i |
Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts . London, UK: Phaidon Press, 1997 |
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759.1309
Cr855a |
Craven, David. Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent During the McCarthy Period . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
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Oversized
759.13
Ge313a |
Gerdts, William H. American Impressionism . New York: Abbeville Press, 2001. |
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758.1795
Pa119h |
Harmon, Kitty, ed. The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History . Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2001. |
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Oversized
759.13
Ea617s |
Kosinski, Dorothy M. Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20 th Century . New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2001. |
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709.7309
Po810m |
Madoff, Steven Henry, ed. Pop Art: A Critical History . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997 |
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745.44
Ma143d |
McDermott, Catherine. Design Museum Book of 20 th Century Design . Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1998. |
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Reference
902.02
Me487c |
Mellersh, H. E. L. Chronology of World History . Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. |
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709.94
Mu972m |
Museum of Modern Art, New York: The History and the Collection . New York: Abradale Press, 1997. |
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704.0396
Pa278a |
Patton, Shron F. African-American Art . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
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701.18
Ar75p |
Preziosi, Donald, ed. Art of Art History . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
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914.404
St51f |
Stich, Sidra. France: Contemporary Art & Architecture Handbook . San Francisco: artSites, 1999. |
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Reference
902.02 Ti482d |
Time Lines on File . New York: Facts on File, 1988. |
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