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Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day, this dictionary contains clear and concise entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also includes biographical entries for artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and patrons, with places and full dates of birth and death (in many instances correcting misinformation that has found its way into other sources). For this new edition, entries have been thoroughly revised and updated, and almost fifty new entries have been added.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Abstraction
• 2 Allegory
• 3 Ambiguity
• 4 Appropriation
• 5 Areas of Competence
• 6 Authenticity and Outsider Art
• 7 Autobiography
• 8 Balance
• 9 Beauty
• 10 Boundaries
• 11 Brush Techniques
• 12 Chance
• 13 Classicism and Renaissance
• 14 Collage and Assemblage
• 15 Color as Light
• 16 Color as Limit
• 17 Color Theory
• 18 Composition
• 19 Conceptual Art
• 20 Consistency of Visual Language
• 21 Craft
• 22 Creativity

• 23 Cross-Cultural Fertilization24 Cubism
• 25 Dada
• 26 Decoration
• 27 Distortion
• 28 Distribution
• 29 Drawing Language
• 30 The Emotive Object
• 31 Erotic Art
• 32 Expression in the Abstract
• 33 Fantasy and Visionary Art
• 34 Finish
• 35 Formal Innovation
• 36 Form Rendered
• 37 Gender
• 38 Harmony
• 39 Hierarchical Proportion
• 40 Imagination
• 41 Installation
• 42 Intentionality
• 43 Interactive Art
• 44 Juxtaposition
• 45 Kinetic Art
• 46 Land Art
• 47 Layers
• 48 Linear Basics
• 49 Mannerism

• 50 Mass51 Materials as Art
• 52 Minimalism
• 53 Mixed Media and Multimedia
• 54 Motif
• 55 Movement
• 56 Narrative
• 57 Op Art
• 58 Overload
• 59 Performance Art
• 60 Perspective
• 61 Plasticity
• 62 Politics and Polemics
• 63 Prepare and Develop
• 64 Printmaking
• 65 Process as Meaning
• 66 Proportion and Ratio
• 67 Quality
• 68 Quoting
• 69 Readymades
• 70 Realism
• 71 Religiosity
• 72 Repetition
• 73 Representation
• 74 Restraint
• 75 Rhythm
• 76 Romanticism
• 77 Scale
• 78 Semiotics

• ""79 Semiotics
• 2: Deconstruction""""80 Sensitivity and Sensibility""; ""81 Shape""; ""82 Shock""; ""83 Simplification""; ""84 Space and Volume""; ""85 Spectacle""; ""86 Style and Stylishness""; ""87 Successive Approximation""; ""88 Sufficiency of Means""; ""89 Surrealism""; ""90 Symbols""; ""91 Symmetry""; ""92 Temporary Art""; ""93 Texture""; ""94 Theme""; ""95 Tone as Structure""; ""96 Touch Communicates""; ""97 Tribal Art""; ""98 Trompe lâ€?Oeil""; ""99 Underpainting""; ""100 Video Art""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""

A follow-up to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design, a new volume will present one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art, that will guide, challenge and inspire any artist to make better, more focused art.Universal Principles of Art serves as a wealth of prompts, hints, insights and roadmaps that will open a world of possibilities and provide invaluable keys to both understanding art works and generating new ones. Respected artist John A. Parks will explore principles that involve both techniques and concepts in art-making, covering everything from the idea of beauty to glazing techniques to geometric ideas in composition to minimalist ideology. Techniques are simple, direct and easily followed by any artist at any level. This incredibly detailed reference book is the standard for artists, historians, educators, professionals and students who seek to broaden and improve their art expertise.
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This dictionary contains over 2,500 entries covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day. It includes biographical entries, styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries.

Oxford Art Online enables access and cross-search functionality to Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

This third edition of 'The Oxford Dictionary of Art' is an authoritative, one-volume guide to the art of the western world. It offers a balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing and the applied arts from classical times to the 21st century.

Provides access to the entire text of The dictionary of art (1996) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.

An illustrated feast for the eye and intellect Dutch Art explores developments in art, art history, art criticism, and cultural history of the Netherlands from the artists' workshops for the Utrecht Dom in 1475 to the latest movements of the 1990s. it is lavishly illustrated with 147 black-and-white photographs and 16 pages in full color. More than 100 internationally recognized scholars, museum professionals, artists, and art critics contributed signed essays to this monumental work, including historians, sociologists, and literary historians.
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