These sources are not scholarly.
They're good enough for casual exploration and to give you ideas and search terms to take into deeper research.
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
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Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day: there is even a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan.
Critical Terms for Art History
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This edition consists of essays that cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from sign to meaning, ritual to commodity. Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art.
Universal Principles of Art: 100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art
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A comprehensive reference for all artists, covering principles that involve both techniques and concepts in art-making, covering everything from the idea of beauty to glazing techniques to geometric ideas in composition to minimalist ideology.
Art in World History 2 Vols
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Discusses the artistic and architectural expressions of cultures across the world and throughout time, examining art and its role in history chronologically and between East and West, and as it was influenced by religions, conquests, and civilizations
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