By Ian Chilvers
In line with the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Art, this can be an authoritative and up to date consultant to Western art--from historical Greece to the current day. For this 3rd variation, new entries were further on more youthful, modern artists akin to Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Rachel Whiteread, and the prevailing entries were completely revised and up to date. With over 2,500 entries, prepared in A-Z order for ease of reference, this can be an awesome booklet for college kids and for somebody who enjoys vacationing artwork galleries and exhibitions. There are entries on artists, portray, sculpture, the photo arts, major creditors, buyers, and consumers, museums and galleries, and fabrics and methods, many enlivened via quotations from artists and critics. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of paintings and Artists is a fascinating and trustworthy better half for somebody with an curiosity within the heritage of art--from Giotto to Gilbert & George.
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Baudelaire, Charles (1821-67). French poet and critic. As well as being a major poet, Baudelaire was one of the foremost art critics of his day. He held that there is no absolute and universal beauty but a different beauty for different peoples and cultures. Moreover, the individuality of the artist is essential to the creation of beauty and if it is suppressed or regimented, art becomes banal: 'the beautiful is always bizarre' was a favourite maxim. Baudelaire the claims that art should serve resisted Pompeo 1937).
Wooded He landscapes, with figures that were often added by other notably *Temers the Younger. Few artists, a Dubuffet repudiated the concept of psychiatric art, claiming that 'there aspects his. are in Brussels Cathedral. art chameleon- or parrot-like processes' is evidence of a power of originality that all people possess but which in most has been stifled by educational training and social constraints. In 1945 he began to make a collection of works free from cultural norms, and in 1972 his collection, by then numbering more than 5,000 items, was presented to the city of Lausanne, where was inaugurated at the Chateau de it Beaulieu in 1976.
Auto-destructive art. Term applied to works of art deliberately intended to selfdestruct. Works of art not made to endure are not unique to the 20th cent, (witness the butter sculptures of Tibet and the sand paintings of some North American Indian tribes), but the originator of the modern concept of auto-destructive art is Gustav Metzger (1926- ), who is best known for Avercamp, Hendrick (1 585-1634). Dutch painter, active in Kampen, the most famous exponent of the winter landscape. He was deaf and dumb and known as 'de Stomme van Kampen' (the mute of Kampen).