Surveys for Art
Surveys discuss the history of art (or of a period, region, or aspect of art). Also included in this list are atlases and chronologies, which, along with surveys, can be helpful in understanding how an artist or a work of art fits into historical developments in a particular time or place.
Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 11th ed.
N5300.G25 2001 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
Hartt. Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 3rd ed.
N5300.H283 1989 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
Janson. History of Art: The Western Tradition. 6th ed.
N5300.J3 2001 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
Stokstad. Art History. 2nd ed.
N5300.S923 2002 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
Excepting Janson, all of the above surveys include non-Western art to some extent.
For an overview of non-Western art:
Art Beyond the West: The Art of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas.
N5300.K292 2002 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
Monographic Series
Oxford History of Art. New York: Oxford University Press.
Call numbers vary. Browse under series for individual titles.
World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson.
Call numbers vary. Browse under series for individual titles.
Atlases and Chronologies
On the history of the visual arts:
Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites, and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age.
G1046.E64S7 1994 Q (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
Key Dates in Art History: From 600 BC to the Present.
N5306.M35 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
Timeline of Art History
For a broader view of the arts (visual, literary, and performing):
Calendar of Creative Man.
NX447.5.P38 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
Timelines of the Arts and Literature.
NX447.5.B76 1994 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
The Wilson Chronology of the Arts.
N5306.O26 1998 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
To locate additional surveys, search the CAT using the keywords "history" and [your topic].