The Oxford companion to art

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'There is in English no better one-volume guide to art.' Terence Mullaly, Daily Telegraph 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 régiónál schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and architects. A generous system of crossreferences helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography. The book covers humán artistic endeavour through all time and throughout the world. In order to bring so vast a body of material within the rangé of a single volume the editor has excluded the practical arts and handicrafts with the exception of those, such as for example architecture and ceramics, which bulk so large in our knowledge... Tovább

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'There is in English no better one-volume guide to art.' Terence Mullaly, Daily Telegraph 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 régiónál schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and architects. A generous system of crossreferences helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography. The book covers humán artistic endeavour through all time and throughout the world. In order to bring so vast a body of material within the rangé of a single volume the editor has excluded the practical arts and handicrafts with the exception of those, such as for example architecture and ceramics, which bulk so large in our knowledge of the artistic development of certain countries and peoples that their complete exclusion was out of the question. Articles are written by specialists and Harold Osborne has achieved a fine balance both in the selection of topics and in the degree of detail in each one. Harold Osborne served in the Foreign Office and subsequently the Board of Trade until his retirement in the early 1960s. He edited The British Journal of Aesthetics from 1960 to 1978, and was Vice-President of the International Committee for Aesthetic Studies. He wrote many books on aesthetics and art, and edited two other Oxford Companions: The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art and The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. He died in 1987. Vissza