This book is a comprenhensive guide to the people and movements, facts and artefacts, feats and achievments of human creativity.
It provide details of key terms (what is gouache?), style (what is Expressionism?) and people (who was gaudi?) in the arts throughout history up to the present day. 6000 entries covering: architecture, artistic theory, cinema, classical literature, craft and design, dance, fashion, literary terms, key people, major movements, wide-ranging chronologies, tables of major prizewinners, fully cross-referenced, 1000 quotations, world literature, classical music, pop music, mythology, painting, photography, sculpture, theatre.... The Dictionary of the Arts will entertain, intrigue and inform anyone with an interest in the arts. Mint condition, 564 pages, hard cover.