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AH 12 - Introduction to the Art History of Asia, Africa, and the Americas


Style Guide

Ref N7476.B37 2000
A short Guide to Writing About Art. Barnet, Sylvan.

Course Reserve

Library Catalogs

Interlibrary Loan

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Ref N31.D5 1996
The Dictionary of Art. Grove's Dictionaries, c1996.

NA6001.E53 1983
Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture. American Institute of Indian Studies; University of Pennsylvania Press, c1983-1991.

Ref DS805.K633 1983
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Kodansha, 1983, 9 vols.

Ref N31.E534
A Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Oriental Arts. Crown Publishers, c1969-, 7 vols.

E98.A7D57 1966
Indian art in America : the arts and crafts of the North American Indian. Dockstader, Frederick J.

Ref DS778.A1B5
Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. Columbia University Press, 1967-79, 5 vols.

Ref DS734.U65
Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644-1912). U.S. Govt. Printing Office., 1943-44.

Ref ND1058.T65 1958
Index of Japanese Painters. Society of Friends of Eastern Art.

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Survey Texts, Bibliographies and Handbooks (not on reserve)

See Library Catalog for call numbers
Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1971-80, 31 vols.

F1435 .C72 1984
The Maya. Coe, Michael D.

F1219.3.A7D6
Indian Art in Middle America. Dockstader, Frederick J.

E59.A7K8 1984
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America : the Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples. Kubler, George.

E51.S85 no. 21
Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology: The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography. Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 1979.

F1434 .H3
Handbook of Middle American Indians. University of Texas Press 1888, 6 vols.

Ref. E61.C66 1986
Atlas of ancient America. Coe, Michael D.

E99.E7S942
Sculpture of the Eskimo. Swinton, George.

DT20.C27 v.7
The Cambridge history of Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1975-1986.

N7380.L3513 1968b
Arts of Mankind: African Art. Golden Press 1968

N7397.A3W33
African Art; its Background and Traditions. Wassing, René S.

N7352.R67
Traditions of Japanese Art; Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection. Rosenfield, John M.

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Documents and Sources

DS423.S64 1988
Sources of Indian Tradition. Columbia University Press, 1988, 2 vols.

DS703.D4
Sources of Chinese Tradition. Columbia University Press, 1960.

DS821.T76
Sources of the Japanese Tradition. Columbia University Press, 1958, 2 vols.

ND1048 .A25
Some T`ang and pre-T`ang Texts on Chinese Painting, translated and annotated. Acker, William Reynolds Beal, 2 vols.

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Periodicals

  • American Art
  • American Journal of Archaeology
  • American Indian Quarterly
  • Americas
  • Archaeology
  • Art Bulletin
  • Art History
  • Artibus Asiae
  • Arts Magazine
  • The Burlington Magazine
  • Gazette des Beaux-Arts
  • Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin
  • The Journal of Asian Studies
  • Metropolitan Museum Journal
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
  • National Geographic
  • Religion and the Arts
  • Smithsonian Studies in American Art

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Periodical Indexes

America: History and Life 1964 -
Citations and abstracts to the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

Art Index (Ref N1.A78) 1950 -
The only English Language index to cover an extensive portion of non-Western art.

Art Index 1980 -
The only English Language index to cover an extensive portion of non-Western art.

Arts & Humanities Search 1980 -
The online equivalent of ISI's Art & Humanities Citation Index. Provides complete access to articles from over 1300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles in over 5000 social science and science journals.

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