Art, Design & Art History

Covers a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods. Focuses primarily on modern and contemporary art materials and techniques.

Explores the sacred and secular themes on which Western art is based. Places these subjects in their narrative, historical, or mythological contexts.

A comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts--from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture. Also provides in-depth surveys of Western aesthetics and broad coverage of non-Western traditions and theories of art.

Offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history.

Deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more.

Covers every period of Western architectural history. The text is complemented by over 250 line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. Included biographies of notable architects.

Covering Western art from the ancient Greeks to the present day with entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. Also includes biographical entries for artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and patrons, with places and full dates of birth and death.

Provides information about twentieth-century artists, movements, photographers, techniques, styles, and turn-of-the-century precursors.