The art book. / [Contributors Adam Butler,Claire Van Cleave, Susan Stirling]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Adam.

Van Cleave, Claire.

Stirling, Susan.

Phaidon Press.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Themes, motives.

Art.

Artists--Dictionaries.

Artists.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

503 pages, 13 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm

Edition:

[Mini edition].

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Phaidon Press Limited], [1997.]

Summary:

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, "The Art Book" has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.

Contents:

The 500 artists

Glossary of technical terms

Glossary of artistic movements

Directory of museums and galleries.

Notes:

"First published 1994. This edition first published 1997. Reprinted 1997, 1998, 1999."

"'The Art Book' ... an A to Z guide of 500 great painers and sculptors from medieval to modern times ... Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a typical work accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on each image and its creator."--P. [3].

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has self-addressed postcard to Phaidon Press laid in.

ISBN:

0714836257 :

9780714836256

OCLC:

43920523