Dictionary of Art and Artists

by Herbert Read (Consulting Editor), Nikos Stangos (Revisions Editior)

International and up-to-date, this extensively illustrated and copiously cross-referenced dictionary covers over 2500 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. This indispensable source book has now been extensively revised, supplemented and updated with over 200 new entries. 426 illus.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Art History, Reference, German Literature, Dictionaries

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Sir Herbert Edward Read, (December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education.

Politically, Read considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art & the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jung's collected works in English.

On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

He was the father of the well-known writer Piers Paul Read, the BBC documentary maker John Read, the BBC producer and executive Tom Read, and the art historian Ben Read.

Reviews

[Juliette]

This book was published in the '90s, so it isn't very up-to-date, obviously. It is helpful to have on hand when you need to look up quick information about art history and for whatever reason can't access the internet. This book should include color images, but it doesn't. Like I said, it was published in the '90s.