Edited by Ian Chilvers
2,500 entries
Based on the highly praised Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from Ancient Greece to Neo-Expressionism and Britain's highly controversial Turner Prize. Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Leonardo da Vinci, from Grandma Moses to Mary Cassatt, from Max Beckmann to Andy Warhol.
Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, the Ancients, Impressionism, the Ash-can School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing.
Ian Chilvers is an art historian and freelance editor and writer.
ISBN: 0198604777
Print edition publication date: 2003
