From Baroque to Postmodernism, batik to mezzotint, and canvas to porcelain, this new dictionary provides succinct and accessible explanations of over 1,650 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world. Features extensive coverage of periods and styles throughout art history. Includes many materials, techniques, technical and foreign terms. Explains philosophical terms and methodologies.

Covering Western art from the ancient world to the present day, the Oxford Dictionary of Art provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal ranging across painting, sculpture, drawing, and the applied arts. Over 3000 entries provide the reader with information on a wide range of people and subjects, including: artists; critics; collectors; dealers; patrons; museums; art schools; materials; and techniques. The Dictionary also includes an updated contextual chronology of major works, as well as a practical directory of museums and galleries around the world.

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. For this new edition, entries have been thoroughly revised and updated, and almost fifty new entries have been added.

This dictionary draws on literature, history, psychology, geography, economics, and other disciplines to set key artistic advances in their cultural context. More than 1500 entries distill current scholarly findings in an engaging nonacademic voice. They encompass artists and theorists from Alberti to Judy Chicago to Zubaran; periods, styles, and movements from abstract expressionism to social realism; techniques and terms from action painting to x-radiography.