348 pages
Purchase Details
Paperback: 0-500-20274-5
Publication date: 1994
Readership: Anyone interested in art and artists.

International and up-to-date, this copiously cross-referenced dictionary provides information on a consuderable number of artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements, including essential information on contemporary art and artists, not available elsewhere, and on techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists. This indispensable source book is now extensively revised, supplemented and updated with 200 new entries, including Installation Art, Frida Kahlo, Rachel Whiteread and Bill Viola.

"Plucky and ambitious...an instantly accessible compendium of the salient facts and dates of the lives of artists and of brief definitions of unfamiliar styles and movements encountered in reading or gallery visiting" - The Times Literary Supplement.

"Excellent value...a useful pocket-book for instant reference" - Art Line.