Art & Design

Find here concise entries, often accompanied by illustrations. This can prove particularly useful for locating definitions of artists’ tools.

Find here a guide to contemporary ideas, movements and jargon.

Find here a guide to ideas, movements and jargon used from 1848-1944.

Primarily a biographical dictionary, this also contains entries central to American art from the 16th century to the second half of the 20th century.

A 20th century dictionary of terms, particularly useful for terms relating to techniques and materials.

This is a reprint of the original, published in 1854.

This dictionary of culture (including biographical entries) covers architecture, artistic theory, film, literature, craft, design, dance, fashion, music, mythology, painting, photography, sculpture and theatre, all throughout history.

Titles of artistic creations (plays, novels, films, musical works, paintings, and etc.), characters (historical and mythical), biblical personages, historical events and geographical names, are here given in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian, with cross-indices in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

This is a guide to locating terms in other reference works. WSU Library call numbers are indicated in pencil for the ‘books’ portion of the bibliography.

As the title indicates, this also covers terms in architecture and design. Notably, articles are followed by short bibliographies.

This is a reprint of Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, originally published 1883.

Primarily a biographical dictionary of painters, sculptors and graphic artists, also find here entries on movements, groups, techniques, terms and prominent painters and writers on art. This also contains portraits or photographs of artists along with some color examples of famous works of different periods of art history.

This is an alphabetical survey of major art movements, works, themes, people and events all relating to art from 1789 to 1914.

This provides international coverage of biographical articles, articles on movements and associations, terms and regional developments. Contained here are a large number of entries on British artists in the 20th century.

Containing short summaries of terms, styles and biographical information, entries are often followed by bibliographies.

Primarily a biographical dictionary (excluding architects)with brief entries, in it's 4th edition also includes entries for western art forms.

Particularly related to the study of art history, this volume contains biographical entries with quotations from the artists, definitions of terms, movements, styles, places, and techniques.

Specifically related to twentieth-century art, this work provides international coverage to biographical information on artists, entries of terms, movements and schools, often with suggestions for further reading.

Although primarily a biographical dictionary, this also includes entries on movements and terms. Most articles include bibliographical references for further reading and the work contains a notably large number of color illustrations.

Here find extremely brief entries, but a relatively contemporary set of terms.

Limited to British art, this work includes biographical entries and terms, with a subject index in the front of the book and a brief bibliography in the back.

This contemporary dictionary of terms and biographical entries contains short entries but with broad coverage.