This book covers every significant medium of art, from painting, sculpture and printmaking to medieval goldsmiths' work and stained glass.
Here will be found clear, up-to-date information on hundreds of artists and on more general topics such as schools, concepts techniques, institutions, patronage and art criticism. The many illustrations have been chosen to illuminate the whole range of subjects and artists and to highlight connections between them.
The entries are cross-referenced; there are full bibliographies; and gazetteer gives detailed information on collections of British art throughout the world.
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'The entries are models of concision and have been compiled by an impressive list of scholars' - The Times Literary Supplement
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This essential companion is the only book on British art to cover every period from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day.
David Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University College London. He is currently a Fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, and he was Visiting Professor of History of Art at Harvard 2011-17. His publications include Blake as an Artist, Hogarth and his Times: Serious Comedy, and Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800. Since 2006 he has been the editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the series The Image of the Black in Western Art, in 12 volumes so far.
