The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists: 0 (World of Art) - Softcover

Read, Herbert; Stangos, Nikos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202745 ISBN 13: 9780500202746

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers historical styles and movements in the arts, and contains entries on techniques, materials and terms, as well as on the major writers whose ideas have influenced the course of art and the work of artists. This revised and updated edition contains more than 2500 entries, over 200 entries having been added to those in the previous edition.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This extensively illustrated and copiously cross-referenced dictionary provides information on over 2500 artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements, including essential information on contemporary art and artists, not available elsewhere, and on techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists.

About the Author:

Sir Herbert Edward Read, (1893-1968) was an English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0500202745
• ISBN 13: 9780500202746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384