Contains an entry for the Arts and Crafts Movement.__

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 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.

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.

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.