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Bibliography of encyclopedias: art and artists

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This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of art and artists in any language. Entries are in the English language unless stated as otherwise.

Contents

Engraving

  • Engen, Rodney K. Dictionary of Victorian wood engravers. Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. ISBN 0859641392.

    • Furniture

  • Aronson, Joseph. Encyclopedia of Furniture. 3rd ed., Crown, 1965.
  • Boyce, Charles. Dictionary of Furniture. Facts on File, 1985.
  • Fairbanks, Jonathan and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. American Furniture: 1620 to the Present. Marek, 1981.
  • Gloag, John and Clive Edwards. A Complete Dictionary of Furniture. Rev. ed., Overlook Press, 1991.

    • Jewelry

  • Newman, Harold. Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry. Thames & Hudson, 1987.

    • Pottery and porcelain

  • Boger, Louise Ade. Dictionary of World Pottery and Porcelain. Scribner's, 1970.
  • Cameron, Elisabeth. Encyclopedia of Pottery & Porcelain, 1800-1960. Facts on File, 1986.
  • Hamer, Frank and Janet. Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques. 3rd ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

    • Textiles

  • Jerde, Judith. The Encyclopedia of Textiles. Facts on File, 1992.
  • Racinet, August. Historical Encyclopedia of Costume. Facts on File, 1988.
  • Sichel, Marion. Costume Reference. Plays, Inc., 1977-78.
  • Wilcox, Turner. Dictionary of Costume. Scribner's, 1968.
  • Yarwood, Doreen. The Encyclopedia of World Costume. Scribner's, 1978; Outlet Book Company, 1988.

    • Design

  • Byars, Mel (2004): The Design Encyclopedia, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 832 pages. ISBN 978-0870700125.
  • Fleming, John & Hugh Honour. The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts. rev. ed., Viking, 1990.
  • Jervis, Simon. Facts on File Dictionary of Design and Designers. Facts on File, 1984.
  • Livingston, Alan, Isabella Livingston. The Thames and Hudson dictionary of graphic design and designers. Thames & Hudson, 2003. ISBN 0500203539.
  • Morteo, Enrico (2008): Grande Atlante del Design dal 1850 a oggi, Electa - Mondadori, 422 pages. ISBN 978-8837048976. (Italian)
  • Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. Oxford, 1975.
  • Pendergast, Sara. Contemporary designers. St. James Press, 1997. ISBN 1558621849.
  • Pile, John. Dictionary of 20th-Century Design. Facts on File, 1990.
  • Riley, Noël, Bayer, Patricia (2003): The Elements of Design: a practical encyclopedia of the decorative arts from the Renaissance to the present, Free Press, 544 pages. ISBN 9780743222297.

    • Photography

  • Auer, Michèle, Michel Auer. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos jours = Photographers encyclopaedia international 1839 to the present. (in English and French). Editions Camera obscura, 1985. ISBN 2903671044.
  • Auer, Michel, Michèle, Ides et calendes. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes des débuts à nos jours = Photographers encyclopedia international from its beginnings to the present. Ides et calendes, 1997. ISBN 2825801267.
  • Browne, Turner, Elaine Partnow. Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists and innovators. Macmillan; Collier Macmillan, 1983. ISBN 0025175009.
  • Carroll, John and William Broecker. Encyclopedia of Practical Photography. Amphoto, 1977-1978.
  • International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography. Crown, 1984.
  • Evans, Martin Marix, Amanda Hopkinson, Andrei Baskakov. Contemporary photographers. St. James Press, 1995. ISBN 1558621903.
  • Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. ISBN 0415972353.
  • Mautz, Carl. Biographies of western photographers: A reference guide to photographers working in the 19th century American West. Carl Mautz, 1997. ISBN 0962194077.
  • Peres, Michael R. The Focal encyclopedia of photography: Digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. Elsevier/Focal Press, 2007. ISBN 9780240807409.
  • Stroebel, Leslie and Richard D. Zakia. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Focal Press, 1993.
  • Warren, Lynne. Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography. Routledge, 2006. ISBN 1579583938.
  • Willis-Thomas, Deborah. An illustrated bio-bibliography of black photographers, 1940–1988. Garland, 1989. ISBN 082408389X.

    • Sculpture

  • Beaulieu, Michèle, Victor Beyer. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs français du moyen age. Picard, 1992. ISBN 2708404245.
  • Boström, Antonia (2003): The Encyclopedia of Sculpture, 3 vols, Routledge, 1,936 pages. ISBN 978-1579582487.
  • Dürre, Stefan (2007): Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur: Bildhauer, Epochen, Themen, Techniken, Seeman, 464 pages. ISBN 9783865021014. (German)
  • Gunnis, Rupert (1953: later editions 1968 and 2009): Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660–1851
  • Hachet, Jean-Charles (2005): Dictionnaire des sculpteurs et fondeurs animaliers de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Argusvalentines, 2 vols, 1,088 pages. ISBN 978-2919769131. (French)
  • Mills, John (2005): Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques, paperback, Batsford, 240 pages. ISBN 978-0713489309.
  • Opitz, Glenn B. Dictionary of American sculptors: 18th century to the present, illustrated with over 200 photographs. Apollo, 1984. ISBN 0938290037.

    • Symbolism

  • Drake, Maurice and Wilfred Drake (1916). Saints and their emblems. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 
  • Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. Harper & Row, 1979.
  • Roberts, Helene E. Encyclopedia of comparative iconography: Themes depicted in works of art. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. ISBN 1579580092.
  • Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical saints art index: A locator of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, icons, frescoes, manuscript illuminations, sketches, woodcuts, and engravings, created from the 4th century to 1950, with a directory of the institutions holding them. McFarland, 1994. ISBN 0899509428.
  • Sill, Gertrude Grace. Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art. Macmillan, 1975.
  • Speake, Jennifer. The Dent dictionary of symbols in Christian art. J. M. Dent, 1994. ISBN 0460861387.

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