The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
Edward Lucie-Smith
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NEW EDITION 2003
| ‘A richly illustrated paperback that provides useful information on a wide range of art and design history, theory and practice ... Scholarly yet accessible, and should prove invaluable to teachers and students alike’ | – The Times
Educational Supplement |
| ‘A boon and a blessing to every art history student and gallery goer’ | | – Art Monthly |
An essential reference work embracing the vast vocabulary of art in all its forms
• Over 2000 authoritative entries and 400 illustrations, including diagrams for comprehensive treatment of architectural terms
• Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day: there is even a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India
and Japan
• This new edition features entries connected with the use of computer technology in the art world and includes today’s influential groups and tendencies
From the Preface:
This dictionary is compact, because our experience of the arts is gained in so many places – in exhibitions, in museums, touring with a guide book – and no one wants to tour with a reference library. It is also comprehensive, because neither in real life nor in books are the various arts neatly segregated. More than 2000 entries therefore define and explain terms from painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative and applied arts…
With this dictionary at hand, the reader should be able to puzzle out any art text, however technical, and the collector or exhibition-goer should feel at ease with any auction or museum catalogue, no matter how recondite.
Edward Lucie-Smith is the author of many distinguished books on art, including Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists and Movements in Art Since 1945, (also in the World of Art series).
See the complete list of reference titles in the series
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|  |  | | | | New Edition | | ISBN 0500203652 | | ISBN-13 978-0500203651 | | | | 21.0 x 15.0 cm | | Paperback | | 240pp | | 400 illustrations | | First published 2003 | | | | £7.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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