Research Guides @ Fordham: Art History: Decorative Arts

Decorative Arts

Decorative Art by Albert Jacquemart
Call Number: (RH) +NK600 .J3513 2012
New York : Parkstone Press International, 2012.
History of Design : Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber (Editors)
Call Number: (RH) Ref NK 600 .H57 2013
New York : Bard Graduate Center : Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.
Materials and Techniques in the Decorative Arts by Lucy Trench (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref NK30 .M38 2000
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Skira Dictionary of Modern Decorative Arts by Valerio Terraroli
Call Number: (RH) Ref NK30 .T47 2001
Milano : Skira, distributed in North America and Latin America by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. through St. Martin's Press, 2001.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts by Gordon Campbell
Call Number: (RH/LC) Ref NK28 .G76 2006 2 vols
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Decorative Arts

Inventing the Modern World : Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 by Jason T. Busch
Call Number: (RH) + NK775 .F88 2012
New York : Skira, 2012.
Mary Gilliatt's Dictionary of Architecture and Interior Design by Mary Gilliatt
Call Number: (RH) Ref NK1704 .G54 2004
New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2004.
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles (2 vols.) by David Jenkins (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) Ref and Stacks NK8906 .C36 2002
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Furnishing Textiles, Floorcoverings and Home Furnishing Practices, 1200-1950 by Clive Edwards
Call Number: (RH) Ref NK1710 .E48 2007
Burlington, VT. : Lund Humphries, 2007.
Encyclopedia of Interior Design by Joanna Banham (Editor)
Call Number: (RH/LC) Ref + NK1165 .E48 1997 2 vols
London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, c1997.
Ceramic Art: Innovative Techniques by Anderson Turner
Westerville, Ohio : American Ceramic Society, 2009.
Electronic resource; authentication required.

Databases

Art Databases
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Decorative arts, including documents. Page authored by the University of Wisconsin.
Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America.
A directory to help researchers locate primary source material about American collectors, dealers, agents and advisors who specialize in fine and decorative arts.

International Bibliography of Art This link opens in a new window
Online successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Authoritative overview of international scholarship within the broad and interdisciplinary subject areas of European art since late antiquity, American art since the colonial period, Global art since 1945, Fine art in all media, Decorative arts and antiques, Museum studies and conservation, Folk art, and Architectural history.

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