About primary sources for modern art
Primary sources are materials in a variety of formats that serve as original evidence documenting a time period, an event, a work, people, or ideas.* For modern art they include artist's writings, interviews, correspondence, as well as sketches, photographs and the work of art itself.
* Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy. Developed by the ACRL RBMS1-SAA2Joint Task Force on the Development of Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, 2018
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Twentieth-Century ArtCovers the painting, sculpture, and graphic art of all the major movements and styles of the twentieth-century. The context is covered as well, such as schools, galleries, exhibitions as well as the art market (collectors, critics, dealers and patrons) and techniques.
- Routledge encyclopedia of modernism
Interdisciplinary review of the Modernist period covering Literature, Architecture, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, and Intellectual Currents.
Styles, Schools and Movements by ISBN: 9780500288443Publication Date: 2011Art in the modern era is defined by its styles, schools, and movements.
Essays, in rough chronological order, cover the late 19thc to the 21st, introducing the major developments in Western painting, sculpture, architecture, and design. A foldout timeline corresponds art with historical events. One hundred of the 300 essays include major international collections and suggestions for further reading. The 1,000+ artists, architects, designers, impresarios, critics, collectors, and champions of modern art mentioned in the essays are indexed.
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