Author: Harold OsbornePublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1277
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Art
Author: Harold OsborneThe Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts
Author: Harold OsbornePublisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Contains an entry for the Arts and Crafts Movement.__
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
Author: Margo NealePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
A comprehensive overview covering indigeneous Australian art, archeological traditions, styles of the contact period, nineteenth-century art trends, and the development of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practices.
The Oxford Companion to Art
Author: Harold OsbornePublisher: Oxford : Clarendon P.
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
The Oxford Companion to Art is a handbook for readers who want an accessible introduction and work of reference to the fine arts. It contains around 3,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles that give both a survey of their subject and a guide of national and regional schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and references helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Author: Simon HornblowerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198706774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 907
Book Description
This Oxford Companion to the ancient classical world is aimed at the general reader interested in learning more about the very bedrock of Western culture, covering such topics as history, morals, mythology, medicine and social life.
The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner
Author: Martin ButlinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198600251
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Offers entries on the life and times of the British painter, the landscapes depicted in his works, his patrons and associates, and the value of his work on the art market, along with studies of individual paintings.
The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture
Author: Peter MurrayPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198602163
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exquisitely designed and lavishly illustrated, this scholarly book offers a gold mine of information on the Judeo-Christian tradition as it applied to Western art. Over 1,700 alphabetized entries cover every aspect of Christian art and architecture. 200+ illustrations. 20 color plates.
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
Author: Darra GoldsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199313393
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 947
Book Description
Not a cookbook, but a encyclopedia collection of entries on all things sweet. The articles explore the ways in which our taste for sweetness have shaped-- and been shaped by-- history. In addition, you'll discover the origins of mud pie; who the Sara Lee company was named after; why Walker Smith, Jr. is better known as "Sugar Ray Robinson"; and how lyricists have immortalized sweets from "Blueberry Hill" to "Tutti Fruiti".
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Author: James David HartPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.
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