Research Guides: HART 399: Senior Seminar (BMC): Reference Sources: Getting started

The Art & Art History Guide has more links.

Email library@brynmawr.edu with questions 7 days a week, and a librarian will get back to you within a day. Or make an appointment with a subject specialist for more in-depth help.

Librarians

Camilla MacKay
Bryn Mawr College

Laura Surtees
Bryn Mawr College

Patricia Guardiola
Haverford College

Reference Sources

Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an art reference library that includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Subject entries, biographies, images, biographies, and thematic timelines (antiquity to present).

Oxford Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies in Art History
Provides expert recommendations, with explanatory blurbs, for important works from books to articles to websites to databases. Covers a wide range of topics, monuments, artists, and more.
Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies
Cinema and media studies includes a plethora of subfields: film history, television studies, media studies, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, etc. Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies offers short encyclopedic entries and annotated bibliographies of the most important books, articles, and Web sites on each topic created by the finest scholars in cinema and media studies.
Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on Chinese studies. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.