Guide to art
By: general editor, Shearer West.
Contributors: West, Shearer.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 911
Subjects: Art -- Dictionaries.; Art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Comprises an essay section and an A-Z reference section.
Table of contents: title: Art in the classical world / Richard Brilliant; title: Penetrating ecclesia, interpretations of Gothic architecture / Phillip Lindley; title: Art and the Renaissance in Italy / N.S. Davidson; title: Court art in seventeenth-century Europe / Joan Crossley; title: Everyday life / Paul Barlow; title: Portraiture / Shearer West; title: Art institutions / Paul Duro; title: The politics of the landscape in European art / Stephen Daniels; title: "Other" art, approaching non-European cultures / Shaun Hides; title: Art in North America, the United States and Mexico, 1820s-1920s / Lucretia Hoover Giese.; title: Women as artists and subjects / Marsha Meskimmon; title: Modernism and modernity / Catriona Miller; title: Grounding Postmodernism / Jonathan Harris.