The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists Author:Erika Langmuir, Norbert Lynton This superb reference work features almost 3,000 entries dealing with all aspects of Western art from 1300 to the present. Along with vivid and up-to-date characterizations of artistic styles and individual artists, the extensively cross-referenced entries describe and explain technical processes, theory, schools, movements, patrons and coll... more »ecting, and more. In addition, conceptual entries cover a full range of subjects from allegory to abstraction.« less