- Hardcover: 862 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 3 edition (25 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198604769
- ISBN-13: 978-0198604761
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,021,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ideal for students, picture researchers, and enthusiasts of all kinds, this third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Art reaffirms the unrivalled position held by this authoritative one-volume guide to the art of the western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts from classical times to the present. Almost 3,500 entries provide the reader with instant information, written in succinct and readable prose, about styles, techniques, collections, artists, and historians. Includes a practical reference section with a fully updated and expanded Chronology, and an Index of Galleries and Museums around the world. There is also a Classified Contents, enabling the reader to search for entries within a particular subject area or period.
About the Author
Ian Chilvers is a freelance writer and editor, specializing in art and art history. He has written and edited many reference books, among them The Oxford Dictionary of Art and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, which have gone through several editions and between them have been translated into six languages, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, and The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. He studied at the Courtauld
Institute of Art, University of London.
Institute of Art, University of London.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential Art Dictionary,
By Carolyn Stubbs (Bristol, North Somerset United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Hardcover)
I have found this book an essential and worthy compilation of art information and definitions. It has been very helpful for me whilst working on my essay, and I would recommend it highly to anyone studying art.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Extreamley usefull for my art history lesons,
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This review is from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Hardcover)
The book is always a good place to start my history of art essays, it is an easy to use refrence book and a must for anyone studing anything in art and design.
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Handy and useful articles on art terms and artist bios,
By Craig Matteson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Paperback)
This is a very handy and informative dictionary of terms you will likely encounter in reading about painting and sculpture. If you think of the definitions as short articles on a topic you will be closer to the mark. There are also many short biographies of important historical artists. One of the nice conventions is an asterisk before terms used in the articles that are also themselves the subject of articles.
There are no illustrations, plates, or diagrams in the book. However, there is a short foreword and an introduction. All in all, this is quite a useful handbook and I use it with some frequency. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent guide to the field,
By Author Bill Peschel "Writers Gone Wild" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Hardcover)
Over the past few years, Oxford University Press has continued to develop its line of excellent reference works, revising older volumes and adding new subjects. The latest edition of "The Oxford Dictionary of Art" carries on that tradition.
The guide offers to the general reader an excellent grounding in the facts and philosophies that underlie the media. The entries cover artists, movements, museums (with addresses and websites), materials and, in the back, a chronology listing key works and when they were completed. While it sometimes falls into the thicket of scholarly jibber-jabber -- and one should recognize the possibility exists while trying to describe visual art using only words, in a book which contains no pictures -- the dictionary is even-handed in describing the critical reaction to a work. With its wide range of descriptions, both geographically and chronologically, this revised guide allows armchair art appreciators to brush up on their learning.
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A MUST HAVE,
By John Roberts "John in Omaha" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art (Paperback)
This is a must have for any art history person or anyone in sales for art. It's a complete who's who and what's what of art. It has useful information and is a great resource.
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