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The Oxford Dictionary of Art

4.00 ( 20 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Oxford Dictionary of Art

The Oxford Dictionary of Art

4.00 (20 Ratings by Goodreads)
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This second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Art covers topics ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts, from classical times to the contemporary scene. Over 3,000 entries provide the reader with instant information about styles, techniques, collections, artists, and historians and a there is also a practical reference section comprising a contextual chronology of major works and directory of museums and galleries around the world. Features of the dictionary include: material on 20th-century art including entries on graffiti art, David Hockney, Tamara de Lempicka, Richard Long, Neo-Expressionism, New Realism, the Pompidou Centre, and the Turner Prize; entries accompanied by quotations from artists and critics; and list of classical and biblical themes in painting and sculpture.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780198604273
ISBN10 0198604270
Number Of Pages 672
Item Weight 951 g
Product Dimensions 159 x 34 x 236 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format paperback
Edition 2
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Lastingly useful...succinct and readable accounts (browsing is a pleasure) of artists, styles, movements, art forms, materials, and techniques will undoubtedly earn it an honorable place on many bookshelves. --Times Literary Supplement


Lastingly useful...succinct and readable accounts (browsing is a pleasure) of artists, styles, movements, art forms, materials, and techniques will undoubtedly earn it an honorable place on many bookshelves. --Times Literary Supplement

Lastingly useful...succinct and readable accounts (browsing is a pleasure) of artists, styles, movements, art forms, materials, and techniques will undoubtedly earn it an honorable place on many bookshelves. --Times Literary Supplement


Lastingly useful...succinct and readable accounts (browsing is a pleasure) of artists, styles, movements, art forms, materials, and techniques will undoubtedly earn it an honorable place on many bookshelves. --Times Literary Supplement


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Author's Bio


Ian Chilvers is a freelance writer and editor with many years' experience on art reference books. The late Harold Osborne (1905-1987) co-founded the British Society of Aesthetics in 1950, whose journal he edited for many years. Dennis Farr CBE was Director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, from 1980 to 1993 and is the author of English Art 1870-1940 and General Editor of the Clarendon Studies in the History of Art.

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