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• Art and Architecture Thesaurus
• Artspeak: a guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords, 1945 to the present
     Raynor Reference N6490.A87 1997
• Artspoke: a guide to modern ideas, movements, and buzzwords
     Raynor Reference N6447.A85 1993
• Britannica Online
• Dictionary of Art
     Raynor Reference N 31 D5 1996
• Dictionary of Women Artists
     Raynor Reference N8354 D53 1997
• Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: themes depicted in works of Art
     Raynor Reference N7560 E53 1998
• Encyclopedia of World Art
     Raynor Reference N31 E533
• Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Full-text of the Dictionary of Art with linked imagesM
• Illustrated Dictionary of symbols in Eastern and Western Art
     Raynor Reference N7740 H35 1994

• Search Marqcat
• Arts e-books in Marqcat
Search Milwaukee Public Library Catalog

• American Art Directory
     Raynor Reference N51 .A54
• Art in America guide to museums galleries artists
     Raynor Reference N1 .A43
• Artcyclopedia
• Biography Resource Center
• Official museum directory
     Raynor Reference AM10.A2 O4
• Techniques of the great Masters of Art
     Raynor Reference ND 1500 T43 1996
• Timelines of the Arts and Literature
     Raynor Reference NX447.5 .B76 1994
• Timetables of History
     Raynor Reference D11 .G78 1991
• World Painting Index
     Raynor Reference ND45 .H38
• Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated

     Scholarly Journals:

• Art Full Text: citations and abstracts to articles in art and related fields such as archaeology, architecture, design, motion pictures, photography, and television, 1984 to the present; some full text articles beginning in 1997
• Art Index Retrospective: citations to articles in art and related fields from 1929-1984
• Humanities in ProQuest: scholarly journals and popular magazines; some full text articles

     Popular magazines and newspapers:

Academic Search Elite: for coverage of the arts in general interest magazines and selected scholarly journals.  Good source for images.
New York Times 1851-2001: index and full text with images of newspaper articles published in the New York Times.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: full text of newspapers, magazines, wire services, business publications, legal resources

• HIST 007


• Fine Arts
• Arts e-books in Marqcat
• Arts e-journals in Marqcat
• Selected Sources in other subjects

• Arts, Entertainment & Media collections

• Citing Sources (print & electronic)
• Citing Electronic resources (MLA & APA formats)
• How to evaluate information resources
• A Short Guide to Writing about Art
Raynor Reserves N7476 .B37 1997
• Writing About Art
Raynor Reference N 7476 S29 1995
• Writer's Handbook
Produced by the Writing Center at UW-Madison.  Contains tips on style, grammar, punctuation, and citing sources.
• Research and Documentation Online
Information on finding and documenting sources in the humanities, social sciences, history, and the sciences.

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