Encylcopedia of World Art , Volume XIV

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Encylcopedia of World Art , Volume XIV

Entry/Object ID

L1968.1.3

Description

The Encyclopedia of World Art is a fifteen volume set is intended, as stated in the preface "to encoumpass our present knowledge of the arts within a single work that is factually complete within the limits of possibility, sensitive to the nuances of recent critical thought, unified in the organization of its vast and varied subject matter, reliable in scholarship by reason of the collaboration of specialists in each area, clearly addressed to its audience without requiring previous specialized preparation, and attractive and serviceable in the wealth and technical excellence of its illustrations." The volumes are labeled alphabetically with volume XIV covering the area of "Textiles, Embroidery, and Lace to Zurbaran". The first half of the book is text (974 pages) while the last half consists of 484 plates which complement the text and are cross-referenced in the contents of each volume. 1458/Hardbound/Illustrations/Maps/Photographs

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Art, Artists

Search Terms

Textiles, Emboirdery, and Lace, Thailand, Totemism, Tragedy and the Subline, Tun-Huang, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United States of America, Van Gogh, Vincent, Vietnamese Art, Walpole, Horace, Wang Meng, Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, Wren, Sir Christopher, Wright Frank Lloyd, Zurbaran, Francisco de, Encyclopedia

Book Details

Author

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1967

Call No.

ArchArt McG

LCCN

59-13433

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent