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ARTH 284: Modernism 2 (Spring 2024): Reference
Union List of Artist Names
- ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)A registry of more than 720,000 names and other information about artists, produced by the Getty Research Institute.
►Use this resource to look up artists' names (including pseudonyms, variant spellings, and preferred name), biographical information, related artists, and citations.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
The reference sources listed below are accessible online via UNC.
- Oxford Art OnlineProvides a single portal for searching across several major art encyclopedias and dictionaries, including Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Entries include bibliographies for further research, images, and often examples of artists' signatures.
- Oxford Reference Online PremiumThe Premium collection brings together more than 300 language and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. These books can be searched simultaneously or by individual book title.
Man Ray
Électricité, 1931. NHIA Photograph Collection, Teti Library, New Hampshire Institute of Art. Artstor Public Collections.