The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
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Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture.
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
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This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. Here in a single volume are combined religious, classical, and historical themes, the figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that established themselves through paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance. More than just a dictionary, this text places these subjects in their narrative, historical, or mythological context and uses extensive cross-referencing to enhance and clarify the meanings of these themes for the reader.
Encyclopedia of Native American Artists
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Students and art lovers will enjoy reading about the approximately 70 Native American artists presented here, many for the first time in a reference book.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
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Arranged alphabetically, entries trace the development of the art forms in classical civilizations such as ancient Greece and Rome.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
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Contains information drawn from Grove Art Online and new material written by G. Campbell.
The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s
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Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists
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This full-color, one-volume dictionary provides an authoritative and up-to-date guide through the maze of twentieth-century artists, movements, photographers, techniques, styles, and turn-of-the-century precursors.
The Visual Dictionary of Photography
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This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within photography. From Acutance to Zoom Lens and Albumen Print to Vignetting, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource to anyone interested in photography.
Artwords : a glossary of contemporary art theory
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Modern Arts Criticism
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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
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Art Now
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This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years.
Encyclopedia of African American Artists
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Contains sixty-six alphabetically arranged entries that profile African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and briefly describes the lives and accomplishments of Ghada Amer, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, and others.
Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists
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Painters, photographers, sculptors, and installation artists are among the seventy-five artists represented in this guide to Asian American artists. Within each entry, Kara Hallmark describes the artists' early life, education and training, and impact on the art world both in their country of heritage as well as the U.S. While some artists dismiss any notion of their heritage influencing their work, others describe how assimilation and immigration affected themselves and their families, particularly those affected by World War II and the Japanese internment camps. Interviews with living artists, as well as extensive images, enhance entries that celebrate the contributions of Asian American Artists to American art. Asian artists from China, Cambodia, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, the Phillipines, Taiwan and Thailand are represented in this volume: -Leo Amino -Thai Bui -Keo Bun -Kip Fulbeck -Jin Soo Kim -Maya Lin -Frank Okada -Rirkirt Tiravanija
St. James Guide to Black Artists
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Lives of Great 20th Century Artists
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In this book, Edward Lucie-Smith relates some of the strangest, saddest, most glorious, and most intriguing life stories of our time. One hundred artists who have shaped our perceptions in this century are presented in lively short biographies. All the entries are illustrated with important works, self-portraits, and photographs, and the book includes an excellent guide for further reading. Clearly grouped according to style and era are modern art's pioneers from Picasso and Duchamp to Louise Bourgeois and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Lucie-Smith vividly evokes the lives of these great personalities and guides the reader through the maze of different styles and movements with authority and verve. Informative and entertaining, illuminated with anecdotes and balanced historical judgment, this is a wonderful collection for everyone interested in the art and artists of the twentieth century.
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