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jujitsu
jujitsu or jujutsu: see judo ; martial arts .
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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture .
Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.
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Henri Focillon
Henri Focillon , 1881-1943, French art historian. Focillon, who was professor of art history at the Collège de France, was an authority on medieval art, the subject of his two-volume treatise Art of the West in the Middle Ages (2d ed. 1969). His book Life Forms in Art (1934) outlines his ...
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Paul J. Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the Fog...
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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of ...
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French art
French art the artistic production of the region that constitutes the historic nation of France. See also French architecture .
Early History
Artistic remains in France date back to the Paleolithic age (see Paleolithic art ), and abundant examples attest to the art of the periods of Rom...
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Persian art and architecture
Persian art and architecture works of art and structures produced in the region of Asia traditionally known as Persia and now called Iran. Bounded by fierce mountains and deserts, the high plateau of Iran has seen the flow of many migrations and the development of many cultures, all of which have...
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art history
art history the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt , who related art to its cultural environment, and the German idealists Alois Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin , and Wilhelm Wor...
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Edward Lucie-Smith
Edward Lucie-Smith 1933-, British poet and art critic, b. Jamaica, grad. Oxford, 1954. He has lived in London since 1951, where he worked as an advertising copywriter (1956-66) and as an editor of books on art. Among his works of poetry are A Tropical Childhood (1961) and Confessions and Histori...
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abstract art
abstract art. Art that does not depict recognizable scenes or objects, but instead is made up of forms and colours that exist for their own expressive sake. Much decorative art can thus be described as abstract, but in normal usage the term refers to 20th-century painting and sculpture that abandon ...
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