The Oxford Companion To Art
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few reference works have achieved the authoritative breadth and scholarly depth of The Oxford Companion to Art, the landmark encyclopaedic volume edited by Harold Osborne and published by the Clarendon Press. Covering an extraordinary sweep of artistic traditions, movements, techniques, and biographies, it presents a comprehensive guide to the visual arts from antiquity through the modern era — drawing on the expertise of leading art historians and critics to illuminate everything from iconography and aesthetics to individual artists and national schools. Osborne, a distinguished philosopher of aesthetics, assembled a volume that functions not merely as a dictionary but as a sustained intellectual argument for the centrality of art to human civilisation. The entries are rigorous yet accessible, written with clarity and conviction, making the work indispensable to students, scholars, collectors, and the curious general reader alike. For anyone seeking a single, authoritative compass by which to navigate the vast terrain of world art history, this volume remains — decades after its first publication — a touchstone yet to be surpassed.
Author: Harold Osborne
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few reference works have achieved the authoritative breadth and scholarly depth of The Oxford Companion to Art, the landmark encyclopaedic volume edited by Harold Osborne and published by the Clarendon Press. Covering an extraordinary sweep of artistic traditions, movements, techniques, and biographies, it presents a comprehensive guide to the visual arts from antiquity through the modern era — drawing on the expertise of leading art historians and critics to illuminate everything from iconography and aesthetics to individual artists and national schools. Osborne, a distinguished philosopher of aesthetics, assembled a volume that functions not merely as a dictionary but as a sustained intellectual argument for the centrality of art to human civilisation. The entries are rigorous yet accessible, written with clarity and conviction, making the work indispensable to students, scholars, collectors, and the curious general reader alike. For anyone seeking a single, authoritative compass by which to navigate the vast terrain of world art history, this volume remains — decades after its first publication — a touchstone yet to be surpassed.