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The Oxford companion to art / edited by Harold Osborne.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Dictionaries.
- Art.
- Artists--Dictionaries.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 1277 pages, 2 plates. : illustrations (including 8 color), plans. ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon P., 1970.
- Summary:
- The Oxford Companion to Art is a handbook for readers who want an accessible introduction and work of reference to the fine arts. It contains around 3,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles that give both a survey of their subject and a guide of national and regional schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and references helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 1231-1277.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 019866107X
- OCLC:
- 106926
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