Collection: Reference

An accessible, informative and fun A - Z guide to artists from medieval times to the present day. Each artist is represented on a full page with a definitive work and explanatory and illuminating information on each image and its creator

This book presents the entire span of world art, accompanied by explanatory charts and diagrams. Each chapter begins with a summary if the most important events, trends, and development 'at a glance'.

An extensive range of suburban images are examined, from Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin, to the modernist suburban reveries of Clarice Beckett in the 1930s and the surreal wartime streetscapes of Albert Tucker, to contemporary artists

A fresh picture of Italian art between the 'Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth.

The key to understanding over a century of dynamic change in art, architecture, and design from Impressionism to the digital age.

Taking a critical view of such conventional categorizations as the 'Rococo', the 'Neo-Classical', and the 'Romantic', Matthew Craske creates a totally new and vivid picture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe.

Surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. Ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the early 21st century. Expanded coverage of modern and contemporary art, from the fall of the empire in 1911 .....

Historical information, collectors' tips, price guides. Over 1000 items with precise descriptions, valuation and 'closer look' features to help identify the most desirable pieces. All the popular categories from furniture and glass to jewelry and posters.