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Biographical Tools

Oxford Art Online Over 23,000 biographical entries from Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (UHM users only) Covers Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Contains over 2,500 entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also includes biographical entries for artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and patrons, with places and full dates of birth and death (in many instances correcting misinformation that has found its way into other sources). Previously entitled The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists.
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists (UHM users only) A biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism. Includes analysis of America’s leading painters, ranging from John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, and Mary Cassatt to such modern masters as Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol. Prominent sculptors and photographers are also covered - from Alexander Calder to Louise Nevelson and Man Ray to Walker Evans - as well as contemporary installation artists, including video master Bill Viola.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (UHM users only) There are over 800 biographical entries, both on photographers and on others who have influenced photographic culture from the 19th century to the present.
A Dictionary of Modern Design (UHM users only) Over 2,000 entries. From Art Nouveau to Postmodernism, Benetton to Frank Lloyd Wright, this dictionary covers the past 150 years of international design, with entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion. Designers and manufacturers feature in a range of biographical entries, and the dictionary's international focus takes in major movements, key concepts, design terminology, and important design institutions, museums, and heritage sites.
Artcyclopedia A fully searchable index of artists and art movements that provide links to images of the artists' works on museum and other websites.
Who's who in American art (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. Profiles more than 11,600 contributors to the visual arts in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Includes artists, administrators, consultants, critics, curators, dealers, historians, collectors, librarians, and publishers.
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Who's Who in Art (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. Over 3,800 biographies of Contemporary Artists, Sculptors, Designers, Architects and Photographers exhibiting and/or represented in the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as leading personalities in British Contemporary Art. Includes over 1,000 alphabetically-indexed artists websites and over 700 modern and contemporary art gallery websites.
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Who was who in American art, 1564-1975 (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number.
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The Artists of the World: Bio-bibliographical index A-Z (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. This index, in 10 volumes, lists the names of over 500,000 artists from virtually every country and all periods of history.
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Art books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. Indexes the monographic literature on artists. Contains 10,543 titles on 1,870 artists representing painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, graphic arts, photography, and decorative and applied arts.
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Index to Artistic Biography (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. Indexes artists in dozens of books. First published in 1972, with a first supplement in 1981, and a second supplement in 2002
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Contemporary artists (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. Contains nearly 850 profiles of the most significant artists working in the contemporary era. The majority of these artists have done their most significant work in the years after 1960.
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Designers international index (printed book) Located in Hamilton Reference, click on title for call number. This 3-volume index covers references to designers in books and periodicals. Arranged by category and by country.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists is available online from Hamilton Library.

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Who's Who in Art is available at the Hamilton Library.

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Contemporary Artists is available at the Hamilton Library.