Author: OSBORNE, HAROLD
Title: The Oxford companion to twentieth-century art / edited by Harold Osborne
Description: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 1988. Third Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Series; Oxford paperback reference. Physical description; x. 656 p. [128] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [601]-648). Summary; The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art provides readers at every level with a wealth of material and information on the art of our time. No other reference book or guide to twentieth-century art covers so wide a range of subjects. or supplies so much detail. as this one-volume assemblage. based on previously scattered information from inaccessible histories. monographs. and widely dispersed exhibition catalogs. Complementing The Oxford Companion to Art. this new Companion treats in far greater depth the artists. ideas. movements and trends of painting. sculpture. and the graphic arts of this century up to the mid 1970s. While it contains mainly entries on individual artists. the contributors also include articles on movements and schools. styles and new technical terms. ranging from Dada and Surrealism to Body Art and Computer Art. It offers separate accounts of art in the United States. Britain. and in the major European countries. as well as articles by leading authorities on the art and artists of Africa. Australia. Canada. Latin America. Mexico. South Africa. and the USSR. The contributors concentrate particularly on the aims and aesthetic theories of individual artists and groups. Including 300 carefully-chosen illustrations--nearly half in color--and a selective bibliography. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art will guide students of art and general readers intelligently through the exuberant jungle of contemporary art. Biography; About the Editor Harold Osborne. who died in 1987. was a leading authority on modern art history. He edited many books on aesthetics and art. including The Oxford Companion to Art and The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. Subjects; Art. Modern — 20th century — Dictionaries. Artists — Biography. Artists — Biography — Dictionaries. Art. Modern — 20th century — History — Dictionaries and encyclopedias. Dictionary — Art — 20th century. Art. Modern — Dictionaries — 20th century. Art. Modern — History — 20th century. Art - 20th century. Encyclopedias and dictionaries — Art — 20th century. Visual arts — (1900-1980) — Encyclopaedias. graphic art. encyclopedias and dictionaries. biography. collective. genealogy. Place in general. The world.General. 1900 to the present day. the arts in general. graphic arts in general. art and artworks. subject encyclopaedias. collective biography. arts. artists. biographical dictionaries. dictionaries. encyclopaedias. Visual arts — (1900-1980). visual arts — encyclopaedias. Art. Modern - 20th century. Art - Encyclopaedias and dictionaries. Art — 20th century — Encyclopedias. Artists — 20th century — Biographical dictionaries. Art — Encyclopaedias. Artists — 20th century — Biographical dictionaries. Art history — 20th century. History of art & design styles: from (c 1900 -). Architecture / General. Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Genres; Biography. Dictionary. Illustrated. ISBN: 0192820761. Weight in Kg appr.:

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