The Encyclopedia of Latin American And Caribbean Art

Informationen zum Autor Jane Turner is a specialist in Dutch and Flemish Old Master drawings. In addition to her work as Editor of The Dictionary of Art, she is preparing catalogues of Northern drawings for the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Klappentext Over 1!400 articles in this volume cover all the major artistic developments in Central and South America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. From 16th-century Spanish colonial architects such as Fray Andres San Miguel to European explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt to contemporary artists such as Debora Arango! the entries chart the adaptations of European artistic traditions and the evolution of individual national cultures in this area of burgeoning importance in history and the visual arts. Zusammenfassung Over 1,400 articles in this volume cover all the major artistic developments in Central and South America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present. From 16th-century Spanish colonial architects such as Fray Andres San Miguel to European explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt to contemporary artists such as Debora Arango, the entries chart the adaptations of European artistic traditions and the evolution of individual national cultures in this area of burgeoning importance in history and the visual arts.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Turner, Jane Shoaf (EDT) Turner
• Assisted by: Jane Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2006
• EAN: 9780195310757
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531075-7
• No. of pages: 803
• Dimensions: 197 mm x 254 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Grove Library of World Art; Grove Library of World Art; New Grove Library of World Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Amerika, Theory of art, ART / Reference, ART / Criticism & Theory, Art & Art Instruction, ART / American / General