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Art Basic Reference: Timelines

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Art of our Century: the Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the present.. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
HUNT FA-REF-4 N6490 .A8913 1989

Bocola, Sandro. Timelines: The Art of Modernism, 1870-2000. Koln: Taschen, 2001
HUNT FA-REF-4 N6465 .M63 B6 2001

Brownstone, David and Franck, Irene. Timelines of the Arts and Literature. New York: Harper Collins Pub., 1994.
HUNT FA-REF NX447.5 .B76 1994

Paxton, John. Calendar of Creative Man. New York: Facts on File, 1980.
HUNT FA-REF-4 NX447.5 .P38

The Chronicle of Cinema, 1895-1995. London: British Film Institute/David Robinson, 1994.
HUNT FA-REF-4 791.43 C557

Grun, Bernard; Stein, Werner.
The Timetables of History : a Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
HUNT FA-REF-4 D11 .G78 1991

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century. Oxford: Phaidon, 1979.
HUNT FA-REF-4 NX456 .L74

Magill, Frank Northen. Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
HUNT FA-REF-4 NX456 .G72 1993 (5 volumes)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History 
Pairs essays and works of art with chronologies,telling the story of art and global culture
through the collection of the  Metropolitan Museum of Art. Contains 300 chronologies,
almost 1,000 essays, and more than 7,000 works of art.  New 2016 edition. The first timeline was begun in 2000.


The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002.
HUNT FA-REF NX456 .N49 2002 (4 volumes)

Ochoa, George. Timeline Book of the Arts. New York: Ballantine, 1995
HUNT FA-REF-4 NX447.5 .O28 1995

Roslin, Mair. Key Dates in Art History from 600 B.C. to the Present. Oxford: Phaidon; New York: Dutton, 1979.
HUNT FA-REF-4 N5300 .M26 1979

Smith, Edward-Lucie. Visual Arts in the 20th Century. New York: Abrams, 1997.
HUNT FA-REF-4 N6490 .L792 1997

Steer, John. Atlas of Western Art History: Artists, Sites and Movements from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age. New York; Oxford: Facts on File, 1994.
HUNT FA-REF-4 G1046 .E64 S7 1994
 

Wilkins, David G. Art Past, Art Present
HUNT FA-REF-4 N5300 .W64 2009
Earlier editions also available.