paintings

Explores the significance of art for the people of the Pacific Islands, discussing the specific art forms and practices of each region; and includes nearly two hundred illustrations.

Provides evaluations of more than 770 painters, explanations of 680 symbols and stories of Western art, and definitions of more than 650 terms, techniques, movements, and styles.

Presents a chronological survey of the major movements and artists of twentieth-century Latin America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America; and includes color and black-and-white illustrations.

Photographs and text help profile six colleges and universities that have the largest collections of African-American art and artifacts.

Contains photographs of folk-art environments around the world, and includes brief essays about the so-called "outsider" artists who created them using bottles, hubcaps, sequins, glass, and other waste and recycled materials.