ART 1A: Visual Literacy (Taschian, Fall 2024): Dictionaries

• ArtLex Art Dictionary

• Artwords: A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory
  • Reference N71.P32 1997

• Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present 
  • Reference  N6490.A87 1997

• Critical Terms for Art History 
  • Reference N34.C75 2003

• Photospeak 
  • Reference TR15.M63 1998
  • Useful for definitions (and key bibliography) of avant-garde movements.

• Artists' and Illustrators' Encyclopedia
  • Reference N33.Q5 1977

• A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques
•  Reference N33.M36

These dictionaries focus on the materials and methods of traditional artistic media more than other historically and biographically oriented dictionaries. See also the Getty "Looking at" series, a more basic set of dictionaries by medium.