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The Thames and Hudson dictionary of art and artists / consulting editor, Herbert Read

Contributor(s): Read, Herbert, 1893-1968 | Stangos, Nikos.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: World of art.Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1994Edition: Rev., expanded and updated ed. / Nikos Stangos.Description: 384 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500202745.Subject(s): Art -- Dictionaries | Artists -- DictionariesDDC classification: 703
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This extensively illustrated dictionary provides information on over 2,500 artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements throughout the world, including entries on contemporary art and artists, techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists.

"The major part of the material in this dictionary was first published by Thames and Hudson Ltd in 1966 in the Encyclopaedia of the arts whose consulting editor was Sir Herbert Read."

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sir Herbert Edward Read, (1893--1968) was an English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.

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