"Full of stunning images and amazing facts, The Arts: a Visual Encyclopedia is the essential guide to painting, sculpture, photography, music, and dance."--

Featuring gorgeous photographs that illustrate and educate, this visual encyclopedia is jam-packed with thousands and thousands of images that bring more than one million things to light.

"Deals with all aspects of Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Africa to Central, South, and East Asia and includes entries on artists, rulers, writers, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, calligraphy, textiles, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Featuring gorgeous photographs that illustrate and educate, this visual encyclopedia is jam-packed with thousands and thousands of images that bring more than one million things to light.

The purpose of this encyclopedia set is to provide, within reasonable limitations of space, a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide for both student & general reader-as well as a lively appreciation of the history of world art. Organized chiefly by artist name, it also includes artist biographies, chronological surveys of art by nation, and articles focused on periods, styles, schools, and movements.