| Description |
4 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Artists by fields and media -- Reader's guide -- Words to know -- Events in art and history -- Biographical Entries: Volume 1: A-K -- Bernice Abbott -- Ansel Adams -- Romare Bearden -- Constantin Brancusi -- Pieter Bruegel -- Alexander Calder -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Mary Cassatt -- Paul Cezanne -- Marc Chagall -- Judy Chicago -- Christo -- Salvado Dali -- Stuart Davis -- Marcel Duchamp -- Albrecht Durer -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Antonio Gaudi -- Paul Gauguin -- Vincent van Gogh -- Francisco Goya -- El Greco -- Walter Gropius -- Duane Hanson -- David Hockney -- Edward Hopper -- Frida Kahlo -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Kathe Kollwitz -- Further reading -- Index -- Volume 2: L-Z Jacob Lawrence -- Annie Leibovitz -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Roy Lichtenstein -- May Lin -- Edouard Manet -- Man Ray -- Henri Matisse -- Michelangelo -- Piet Mondrian -- Claude Monet -- Henry Moore -- Isamu Noguchi -- Georgia OKeeffe -- I M Pei -- Pablo Picasso -- Jackson Pollock -- Rembrandt van Rijn -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Faith Ringgold -- Diego Rivera -- Auguste Rodin -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Augusta Savage -- Georges Seurat -- Alfred Stieglitz -- Henry O Tanner -- Titian -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- J M W Turner -- Diego Velazquez -- Andy Warhol -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Further reading -- Index -- Artists by field and media -- Reader's guide -- Words to know -- Events in art and history -- Volume 3: A-L -- Laurie Anderson -- What is performance art? -- Diane Arbus -- Francis Bacon -- William Blake -- Art and insanity -- Sandro Botticelli -- Georges Braque -- Partnership and rivalries -- Julia Margaret Cameron -- Early days of photography -- Michelangelo Carravaggio -- Giorgio de Chirico -- Joseph Cornell -- Edgar Degas -- Art theft -- Eugene Delacroix -- Donatello -- Marcel Duchamp, updated -- M C Escher -- Jan Van Eyck -- Lucian Freud -- Giotto -- Duane Hanson, updated -- Keith Haring -- Utagawa Hiroshige -- Hokusai -- David Hockney, updated -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- What is neoclassicism? -- Jasper Johns -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Paul Klee -- Gustav Klimt -- Art nouveau -- Willem de Kooning -- Jacob Lawrence, updated -- Roy Lichtenstein, updated -- Maya Lin, updated -- Further reading -- Index -- Volume 4: M-Z -- Rene Magritte -- Joan Miro -- Tina Modotti -- Edward Weston -- Edvard Munch -- Yoko Ono -- What is the avant-garde? -- I M Pei, updated -- Camille Pissaro -- Jackson Pollock, updated -- Beatrix Potter -- Martin Puryear -- Richard Serra -- Raphael -- Virgin Mary in renaissance art -- Rembrandt van Rijn, updated -- Frederic Remington -- Faith Ringgold -- Norman Rockwell -- Graphic art vs fine art -- Aleksandr Rodchenko -- Mark Rothko -- Henri Rousseau -- What is primitive art? -- Betye Saar -- Eero Saarinen -- Le Corbusier -- John Singer Sargent -- Egon Schiele -- Questionable history: artworks stolen in Nazi Germany -- Maurice Sendak -- Dr Seuss -- Cindy Sherman -- Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Arts and crafts movement -- Jan Vermeer -- Inspiring art -- James Whistler -- Grant Wood -- What is American art -- Christopher Wren -- Andrew Wyeth -- Further reading -- Index |
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v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z -- v. 3. -- A-L -- v. 4. M-Z |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: Concentrating on North American and European artists from the Renaissance to the present, Artists covers the life stories of 62 sculptors, painters, architects, photographers, illustrators and designers. It also provides a view of the artists' worlds and impact of their art on society and future generations of artists |
| Notes |
Vols. 3-4 contain full-length biographies of artists not included in vols. 1-2--v. 3, p. xxv |
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Vols. 3-4 have stmt. of responsibility: Judy Galens and Mark Swartz |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Artists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Artists -- Biography
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Artists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Artists.
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Artists -- Dictionaries.
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Artists.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Galens, Judy, 1968-
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Swartz, Mark.
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| LC no. |
95186053 |
| ISBN |
0787653632 |
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0787653640 |
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0787653659 |
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0810398621 |
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081039863X |
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0810398648 |
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1414404794 |
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9780787653637 |
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9780787653644 |
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9780787653651 |
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9780810398627 |
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9780810398634 |
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9780810398641 |
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9781414404790 |
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