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Title The art book
Imprint London : Phaidon Press, 2020
©1994
Edition New edition
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 Adult Nonfiction  709 ART     AVAILABLE
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Call # 709 ART
Phys. Description 592 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, color photographs ; 26 cm
Format text
still image
unmediated
volume
Note Cover title
Includes index
Summary A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time. Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, including many previously overlooked and marginal practitioners. The new edition spotlights more than 600 great artists from medieval to modern times. Breaking with traditional classifications, it throws together brilliant examples from all periods, schools, visions, and techniques, presenting an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich, multifaceted culture. Artists featured for the first time in this edition include: Berenice Abbott, Hilma af Klint, El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, John Currin, Guerrilla Girls, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Takashi Murakami, Louise Nevelson, Clara Peeters, Jenny Saville, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more.
Subject Artists -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Art -- Dictionaries
Art -- History
Art -- Themes, motives
ISBN 9781838661342
1838661344