The Bulfinch guide to art history :

The Bulfinch guide to art history : a comprehensive survey and dictionary of Western art and architecture / general editor, Shearer West. - 1st North American ed. - Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1996. - xii, 911 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

"A Bulfinch Press book." Simultaneously published: Bloomsbury guide to art. United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Pub. Plc., 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Art in the Classical World / Richard Brilliant -- 2. Penetrating Ecclesia: Interpretations of Gothic Architecture / Phillip Lindley -- 3. Art and the Renaissance in Italy / N.S. Davidson -- 4. Court Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe / Joan Crossley -- 5. Everyday Life / Paul Barlow -- 6. Portraiture: Likeness and Identity / Shearer West -- 7. Art Institutions: Academies, Exhibition, Art Training and Museums / Paul Duro -- 8. The Politics of the Landscape in European Art / Stephen Daniels -- 9. 'Other' Art: Approaching Non-European Cultures / Shaun Hides -- 10. Art in North America: The United States and Mexico, 1820s-1920s / Lucretia Hoover Giese -- 11. Women as Artists and Subjects / Marsha Meskimmon -- 12. Modernism and Modernity / Catriona Miller -- 13. Grounding Postmodernism / Jonathan Harris.

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Art--Historiography.
Art--Dictionaries.

N380 / .B78 1996