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Author Butler, Adam.

Title The art book / [contributors: Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Susan Stirling]
Published London : Phaidon, 1994

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Description 512 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
regular print
Contents The 500 artists -- Glossary of technical terms -- Glossary of artistic movements -- Directory of museums and galleries
Summary An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a typical work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on each image and its creator. The entries are comprehensively cross-referenced and glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, together with an international directory of galleries and museums to visit
Analysis Visual arts
Notes Contributors: Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Susan Stirling
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Credits Contributors: Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Susan Stirling
Notes Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year, 1994
Subject Art -- Dictionaries.
Art -- Encyclopedias.
Art -- Themes, motives.
Artists -- Dictionaries.
Artists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Arts.
Painters -- Dictionaries.
Painters -- Encyclopedias.
Painting -- Dictionaries.
Sculptors -- Dictionaries.
Sculptors -- Encyclopedias.
Sculpture -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Author Butler, Adam.
Stirling, Susan.
Van Cleave, Claire.
Phaidon Press.
LC no. 96137493 2006298171
ISBN 0714829846
0714830321
071484487X paperback
9780714829845
9780714830322
9780714844879 paperback