Art Research Guide: Background Information

Contains 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.

Information on artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements, including essential information on contemporary art and artists, not available elsewhere, and on techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists.

Covering over 1300 artists, this dictionary is made up of alphabetically arranged entries for painters (such as Monet), architects (such as Aalto), and sculptors (such as Brancusi) from pre-Christian times to the present (see, for example, Berlin painter, Hockney).

A to Z entries on movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries.

Deals with all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art.