"As part of a major research university, the Department of Art is committed to excellence, open inquiry, and the substantial contributions and potential of creative practice. Situated within the unique environment of the Northwest, the department has a long history of valuing individuality, interdisciplinarity, and power of place."
Provides access to Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan Marter (Editor)
Call Number: Design Library Reference, main floor (N6505 .G76 2011)
Publication Date: 2011
Taking the American art content from Grove Art Online as its starting point, the Encyclopedia contains entries that were reviewed, revised, and updated as well as hundreds of new entries that comprise an up-to-date survey of this essential and ever-growing area of art history.
Books
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States by Paul DiMaggio (Editor)
Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States is the first book to provide a comprehensive and lively analysis of the contributions of artists from America's newest immigrant communities--Africa, the Middle East, China, India, Southeast Asia, Central America, and Mexico. Adding significantly to our understanding of both the arts and immigration, multidisciplinary scholars explore tensions that artists face in forging careers in a new world and navigating between their home communities and the larger society.
Asian American Art by Gordon H. Chang (Editor); Mark Johnson (Editor); Paul J. Karlstrom (Editor)
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists.
They Painted Their Hearts by Mayumi Tsutakawa (Editor)
Examines the work of 18 Asian Pacific American artists creating in the Pacific Northwest during the period from 1900 to 1960. Essays on art in Seattle, Asian American painters of Washington state, early Asian American photographers, and the legacy of Asian American art accompany color paintings and
Indexing and abstracting of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) from 2008 to the present.
Indexes journal articles, books,exhibition catalogs, conference procedings and dissertations and includes detailed abstracts . Topical coverage includes all traditional visual arts as well as new media, architectural history, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, classical studies and more. European art since late antiquity,American art since colonial times, and global art since 1945 are covered.