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Oxford Companion to Western Art
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"Written by distinguished art historians and scholars,
here are 2600 alphabetically arranged entries, almost half
of them covering artists from classical times to the twentieth
century. Other entries discuss art styles and movements, art
forms (such as battle painting, landscape, caricature, or
stained glass), specialist terms, and materials and techniques
in all media. There is strong emphasis on location as a focus
for art. Not only are there regional and cultural surveys,
but also entries on specific places of importance such as
Paris or Urbino. Moreover, museums and galleries are collected
under their city headword so that the reader can easily find
the major sites within a particular locality, such as New
York, Boston, or Madrid. In addition, entries chart the critical
fortunes of the art of the major European countries, covering
for example patronage and collecting of Italian art in France,
Spain, Britain, Germany, the USA, and in Italy itself. The
contributors examine art theory, scholarship, and criticism,
from Aristotle and Pausanius to Sartre, Panofsky, and Foucault."
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