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The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ed. by Hugh Brigstocke. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2001. 768p. acid free $75 (ISBN 0-19-866203-3). www.oup.com.
Editor Hugh Brigstocke brings his experience as former curator at the National Gallery of Scotland, editor-in-chief of the Grove Dictionary of Art, and head of the Old Master Paintings Department at Sotheby's to bear on this new reference work, intended to be a replacement of Harold Osborne's Oxford Companion to Art (Clarendon Press, 1970).
Oxford Companion to Western Art contains 2,600 A-to-Z entries written and signed by one hundred contributors. Although not intended to be comprehensive, the reader can expect to find entries on artists, styles, movements, techniques, materials, criticism, museums, and galleries in major cities, and art history, excluding architecture and non-Western art. Most entries have at least one reference for further reading. Cross-references are indicated within the main text of articles by asterisk. The text is preceded by a list of color plates and concludes with an index of authors and writers on art. Most of the 1,700 articles on artists average between...