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The Bulfinch guide to art history : a comprehensive survey and dictionary of Western art and architecture / general editor, Shearer West.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1996.Edition: 1st North American edDescription: xii, 911 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 082122137X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N380 .B78 1996
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (In-Library Use Only) Books (In-Library Use Only) Nash Library General Stacks N380.B78 1996 1 Not For Loan 33710000821996

"A Bulfinch Press book."

Simultaneously published: Bloomsbury guide to art. United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Pub. Plc., 1996.

Includes bibliographical references.

WAR, NEWBERY,

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.