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A comprehensive overview covering indigeneous Australian art, archeological traditions, styles of the contact period, nineteenth-century art trends, and the development of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practices.
Offers entries on the life and times of the British painter, the landscapes depicted in his works, his patrons and associates, and the value of his work on the art market, along with studies of individual paintings.
The Oxford Companion to Art is a handbook for readers who want an accessible introduction and work of reference to the fine arts. It contains around 3,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles that give both a survey of their subject and a guide of national and regional schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and references helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography.
This Oxford Companion to the ancient classical world is aimed at the general reader interested in learning more about the very bedrock of Western culture, covering such topics as history, morals, mythology, medicine and social life.
Exquisitely designed and lavishly illustrated, this scholarly book offers a gold mine of information on the Judeo-Christian tradition as it applied to Western art. Over 1,700 alphabetized entries cover every aspect of Christian art and architecture. 200+ illustrations. 20 color plates.
Contains an entry for the Arts and Crafts Movement.__
The most authoritative single-volume resource on Western art features forty-eight stunning color plates and 2,600 alphabetically arranged entries exploring art theory, scholarship, and criticism, from the ancient Greeks to Foucault.
his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich