Visual Arts: Biographical Resources

Searchable database of 2500 entries. Guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present. Includes artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Andy Warhol, with entries on younger contemporary artists.

Surveys the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer people to the visual arts.

Brief biographies of over 1,000 artists since 1300. Includes bibliographies and illustrations.

Biographies of 65,000 North American artists from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Covers artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606-2002.

Biographies including career information and critical essays for approximately 400 prominent African-American artists.

Covers over 350 Native American artists. Each citation consists of the following information: tribal affiliation, education, birth and death dates and places, awards, jobs, individual and group exhibitions, collections, publications by and about the artist, and a substantial essay on the artist.

Includes professional and personal profiles of key U.S. and international figures. Combining biographies included in twenty print volumes since 1985, it gives you the facts on over 1,000,000 people.

Provides biographies, exhibition information, and bibliographies for both living and deceased, internationally known contemporary artists, excluding artists who died before 1960. Signed articles and many artists' statements.

Biographies and bibliographies for internationally known designers still active in their fields. Included are signed articles, designer comments, nationality and design field index.

Biographies and bibliographies for prominent photographers worldwide, still living or who have died after 1975. Includes signed articles, exhibition and collection information, and artists' statements.

This unique and authoritative reference work contains around 2,000 clear and concise entries on all aspects of modern and contemporary art. Its impressive range of terms includes movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, dealers, schools, and galleries. There are biographical entries for artists worldwide from the beginning of the 20th century through to today's globalized art world, from conservatives and academics to the most controversial of the avant-garde, from household names to a host of lesser known figures.

Includes biographical data, emphasizes primary exhibitions, and characterizes works of artists of the twentieth century.

References primary source materials of over 14,000 international artists of the twentieth-century.

A thorough examination of women artists worldwide and throughout history. Includes exhibition information, selected writings, and bibliographies.

Biographical information for women artists born before 1960 from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Each entry includes a brief bibliography.

More than 350 of the world's most prominent and influential contemporary women artists.

Covers women artists from a variety of media, time periods, geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

This book covers the careers of 320 women artists working in California over the course of a century. Their work encompasses a broad range of styles - from the realism of the nineteenth century to the modernism of the twentieth - and of media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and print-making.

Comprehensive pictorial showcase of the diverse universe of artists working in the Los Angeles area during the formative period of Los Angeles' art history. Over 900 images of work by almost 500 artists illustrate the edited texts quoted from critical reviews of exhibitions and writings of the period. Special efforts have been made to include both recognized and heretofore unsung key players in the Los Angeles art world.