Reference materials, including encyclopedias and dictionaries, can be used when you are starting your research to get background information.
They are great for giving you keywords that you can use when you start searching for articles on your topic in the library databases or on the web.
Check Credo Reference or Oxford Reference or all of our E-Reference Sources at Alkek Library
American Art Directory - Z5937 .A78
Artspeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present - Ref N6490 .A87 1997
Dictionary of Women Artists — Ref N31 .G76
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography -- Ref TR9 .E53 2008
The Encyclopedia of Sculpture — Ref NB198 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography -- Ref TR642 .E5 2006
Encyclopedia of World Art — Ref N31 .E4833
The Focal encyclopedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science -- Ref TR9 .F6 2007
From Abacus to Zeus — N33 .P5
Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art - eBook
Illustration Index 1977-1981 — N7525 .I44 1977-81
Illustration Index 1982-1986 — N7525 .I44 1982-86