AMST 439: Makers and Meanings: Indigenous Arts and the Marketplace: Background Information

Provides 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.

Presents a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history through The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. It is a reference, research, and teaching tool conceived for students and scholars of art history. It is authored by The Met’s experts, and comprises 300 chronologies and close to 1,000 essays and more than 7,000 works of art. It is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.

Spanning four centuries and covering North and Central America, this collection contains manuscripts (treaties, speeches, petitions, diaries, travel journals, ledger books); Artwork; American Indian Newspapers covering the 1960s to 1990s; Rare Printed Books; Photographs; and Maps from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library.