911 pages
Purchase Details
Paperback, 0-7475-2562-5
Publication date: 22 August 1996
Readership: For home, school, college and library

The Bloomsbury Guide to Art is one of the most up-to-date and comprehensive surveys of the history of art and architecture available today. It is an invaluable reference source and provides a fascinating insight into the origins and significance of the work of Western artists and architects

It includes tightly-focused entries on: individual artists (eg Salvador Dali); art, architecture and design terminology (eg Gothic); countries and their cultural significance (eg Art in France); theoretical concepts (eg formalism); and mythological and religious subjects and symbols (eg Christ). There are also contextualized entries on important individual works of art (eg The Haywain).

The Bloomsbury Guide to Art is the most wide-ranging and easy-to-use single-volume guide available. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this is the only general guide to art that you will ever need.