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Biographical Dictionaries - Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon: Die bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten und Volker. 15 vols. to date. Munich: Saur, 1983-present. Hamon Reference N40 .A63 Updates and expands Thieme/Becker. Provides information on painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and decorative artists, along with locations of their works, exhibitions, and bibliographical references. Entries are longer and more comprehensive than Thieme/Becker. Volume one provides an English explanation of how to use the book. - Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. 10 vols. Paris: Grund, 1976. Hamon Reference N40 .B47 1976 Biographical dictionary covering about 300,000 artists from antiquity to the mid twentieth century. Includes brief biographical data, short bibliographies, locations of works, and, at times, facsimiles of artists' signatures. -Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. Leipzig: E. A. Seeman 1907-50. Hamon Reference N40 .T4 Known as Thieme/Becker, this is the one of the most comprehensive and scholarly biographical dictionaries of artists from antiquity to the twentieth century. Contains bibliographical information on older publications, and biographical information on numerous minor artists. Dictionaries of Art Terms- Atkins, Robert. Artspoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. Hamon Reference N6447 .A85 1993 - Baldwin, Gordon. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991. Hamon Reference TR9 .B35 1991 - Carr, Dawson W. Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. Hamon Reference ND31 .C37 1992 - Goldman, Paul. Looking at Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988. Hamon Reference N33 .G65 1988 - Murray, Peter and Linda. The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists. 6th ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989. Hamon Information Desk N31 .M8 1989 Good, general, quick reference source. Contains short biographies on approximately 1,200 artists. Also provides definitions of artistic movements, terms applied to periods and ideas, and technical expressions and processes. Foreign-Language Dictionaries of Art Terms- Adeline, Jules. Lexique des termes d'art. Paris: Quantin, 1884. Hamon Reference N33 .A22 - Apelt, Mary L. German-English Dictionary: Art History, Archaeology. Berlin: E. Schmidt, 1982. Hamon Reference N33 .A557 1982 - Morales y Marin, Jose Luis. Diccionario de terminos artisticos. Zaragoza: UNALI, 1982. Hamon Reference N33 .M66 1982 See also Lois Swan Jones' Art Information: Research Methods and Resources (Hamon Reference N85 .J64 1990), pages 299-328 for concise French-English, German-English, Italian-English listings of art terms, as well as a multilingual glossary of French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish terms such as proper names, geographic locations, terms denoting time, numbers, animals (real and imaginary), and names in Greek and Roman mythology. Encyclopedias- Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996. Hamon Index Tables N31 .D5 1996 The most up-to-date and extensive art encyclopedia. Contains articles on specific artists, movements in art, and techniques. International in scope, the encyclopedia contains excellent bibliographical citations at the end of articles and is a good source for biographical information on art historians. -Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959-68. Hamon Reference N31 .E533 Good source for obtaining overview of subjects, such as art movements and periods. Contains lengthy bibliographies of older materials. Use index in volume 15. *Compiled by Kathryn Jackson, Hamon Fine Arts Librarian 3/98.
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