American Art and Identity
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history.
Picturing America is an innovative program that helps teach American History. It has provided our school with a comprehensive package of materials including forty large color reproductions of selected masterpieces (24” x 36”) as well as a guidebook. Please ask one of the library media specialists for more information.
Use the online catalog to look up a specific artist or browse in the 700s for Art Books
American Decades, 10 v.
A decade-by-decade exploration of American life in the twentieth century, looking at key people, events, and topics in the arts and many other areas.
American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000 by
Profiles the artists who have has the most influence on American art in the last half of the twentieth century.
Great Artists of the Western World, v. 9
History of Art, 6th ed. by
A comprehensive, color-illustrated history of art in four sections--the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern world--that describes visual art's major movements, milestones, and genres, and briefly covers music and theater. Also includes primary source sections, time lines, a glossary, a discography, a selected bibliography, and a list of art and architecture Web sites.