- Hardcover: 840 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; illustrated edition edition (12 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198662033
- ISBN-13: 978-0198662037
- Product Dimensions: 27.5 x 22.1 x 4.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 523,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art is an immensely impressive and exhaustive reference guide to Western art, from Abstract Art to Emile Zola. It contains over 2,600 entries, including detailed information on over 1,700 artists from the classical period to the late 20th century, as well as 49 special feature articles on topics such as Colour, Perspective, and Drawing, plus key movements such as Renaissance and Cubism. The editor, Hugh Brigstocke and his team of over a hundred internationally renowned art historians, have radically overhauled Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art, first published in 1970. Brigstocke has focused specifically on Western art, covering painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts produced by "all cultures speaking a European language". Architecture and non-Western art are not included, which allows for greater scope on newer subjects. The Companion is aimed at those who would like to "look for biographical details about artists and to need contextual information on patronage, collecting, and changing aspects of taste". The entries are detailed but accessible, and supplemented by 48 pages of colour illustrations (although for a book of this scope more pictures would have been helpful). Particularly valuable are the more indefinable entries on major cities, museums, and movements, and the incorporation of new developments within art history, such as expanded entries on patronage, collecting, medieval illuminations, Baroque art, and more recent developments within modern art. Both its scholarship and presentation will ensure that The Oxford Companion to Western Art will be an indispensable reference book on Western art for many years to come. --Jerry Brotton
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"Everyone curious about the very survival of erudite information should keep this book in their study-room-office or visit libraries, in order to remember what may have been forgotten. You will be overwhelmed. More than most highly recommended."--Choice "Coverage is selective but balanced....highly recommended."--Booklist
"A well-writen and comprehensive volume on Western art....This impressive scholarly work should be standard in academic reference collections."--American Reference Book Annual 2002
"Recommended for all collections."--Library Journal
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
extremely helpful companion
24 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
this is one of the most comprehensive companion guides i've found. most art texts only cover the basics but this includes more obscure info and provides excellent definitions. one of the best features is that it includes themes and topics in art. gray boxed info covers such things as patronage, the tradition of the nude model, comparisons of southern and northern renaissance and portraiture. terrific book, cannot recommend it enough!!!!
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11 Mar 2006
Format:Hardcover
This is a huge, wonderful reference book on almost every aspect of art you can think of. Beware, though, this is not a "picture" book nor is it a narrative history of art. Though it does contain about 50 color paintings between its covers, it is basically an art encyclopedia with entries laid out in alphabetical order.
Besides containing biographical information on just about every artist who ever took brush in hand it has entries on major museums, schools of art, and various other feature length articles on:
Classicism
Casting
Conservation and Restoration
Illuminated Manuscripts
Gilding
Funerary Monuments
Gothic Art
Arts of Countries
Portraiture
Proportion
Impressionism
Perspective.
That's just a sampling of the many interesting topics discussed in a book of over 800 pages. Each page has three columns so there is an immense amount of material covered here. Another interesting group of feature articles pertains to Art as Objects of Patronage and Collecting. These are listed by country, e.g. England, Italy, Spain.
This is a serious art book, and probably would not be of interest to anyone with a very casual interest in the subject. The long article on Perspective, for instance, requires some focusing of the mind. If you've spent some time studying the basics of art, and think that the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon is to tour the local art gallery, then this is the book for you.
Besides containing biographical information on just about every artist who ever took brush in hand it has entries on major museums, schools of art, and various other feature length articles on:
Classicism
Casting
Conservation and Restoration
Illuminated Manuscripts
Gilding
Funerary Monuments
Gothic Art
Arts of Countries
Portraiture
Proportion
Impressionism
Perspective.
That's just a sampling of the many interesting topics discussed in a book of over 800 pages. Each page has three columns so there is an immense amount of material covered here. Another interesting group of feature articles pertains to Art as Objects of Patronage and Collecting. These are listed by country, e.g. England, Italy, Spain.
This is a serious art book, and probably would not be of interest to anyone with a very casual interest in the subject. The long article on Perspective, for instance, requires some focusing of the mind. If you've spent some time studying the basics of art, and think that the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon is to tour the local art gallery, then this is the book for you.
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