{"product_id":"the-oxford-companion-to-western-art","title":"The Oxford Companion to Western Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe original Oxford Companion to Art  edited by the late Harold Osborne  has been a mainstay for over three decades  a renowned one-volume guide to the world of art. Now comes The Oxford Companion to Western Art  almost completely rewritten  covering many more artists and their works  and offering fresh treatment of topics of contemporary interest  including patronage  taste  theory and criticism  materials and techniques  and the new art history. Written by 100 distinguished art historians and scholars  here are 2600 alphabetically arranged entries  almost half of them covering artists from classical times to the twentieth century. Other entries discuss art styles and movements  art forms (such as battle painting  landscape  caricature  or stained glass)  specialist terms  and materials and techniques in all media. There is strong emphasis on location as a focus for art. Not only are there regional and cultural surveys  but also entries on specific places of importance such as Paris or Urbino. Moreover  museums and galleries are collected under their city headword so that the reader can easily find the major sites within a particular locality  such as New York  Boston  or Madrid. In addition  entries chart the critical fortunes of the art of the major European countries  covering for example patronage and collecting of Italian art in France  Spain  Britain  Germany  the USA  and in Italy itself. The contributors examine art theory  scholarship  and criticism  from Aristotle and Pausanius to Sartre  Panofsky  and Foucault. Everyone who loves art  whether artist  critic  scholar  or aficionado  will want to own this essential reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952161845301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198662033","price":50.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198662037.jpg?v=1770152801","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-companion-to-western-art","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}