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 Timelines


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

 

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

 

Ching, Francis D.K. et.al. Global History of Architecture (3500 BCE - 1950 CE). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011
HUNT FA-REF NA200 .C493 2011



Foster, Hal. Art Since 1900 :Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
HUNT FA-REF-4 NX456 .A78 2011 2 Vols.


Gorman, Robert F. Great Events From History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2008.
HUNT REF-1
D421 .G6295 2008 6 vols.


Magill, Frank Northen. Great Events From History II: Arts and Culture Series. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1993. 
HUNT FA-REF NX456 .G72 1993 5 vols.

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.

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


Karney, Robyn., Joel W Finler, and Ronald Bergan. Cinema: Year By Year, 1894-2004. [Updated ed.]. London ; New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2004.
HUNT FA-REF-4 PN1993.5 .A1 C5663 2004


Loney, Glenn Meredith. 20th Century Theatre. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, 1983.
HUNT FA-REF-4 PN2189 .L65 1983
A detailed comprehensive timeline by year, month and day: Volume I: 1900-1947; Volume II:
1948-1979


Norton, Richard C. A Chronology of American Musical Theater. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
HUNT FA-REF-4 ML1711 .8.N3 N67 2002 (3 Vols.)
 

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

 

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

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

 

Oxford Reference Online Timeline
An historical timeline from 1000 BCE to the present.

 


Surveys Containing Timelines

Cambridge History of American Theatre (Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, eds.) New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University, Press, 1998.
HUNT FA-REF-4 PN2221 .c37 1998
Volume 1: Beginnings to 1870
Volume 2: 1870-1945
Volume 3: Post-World War II-1990s
A contextual survey.
Each section contains extensive timelines juxtaposing theatre events in America with selected historical/cultural American and worldwide events.


Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance.
(Maggie B Gale and John F. Dewey, eds.)  London ; New York: Routledge, 2010.
HUNT FA-REF-4  PN6112 .R68 2010.

Anthology of plays and criticism by theme. 
Each section contains an intro and a timeline for theatre, social cultural and political context with extensive bibliography.

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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