Random House Dictionary of Art and Artists

by David Piper

Briefly introduces the leading schools and techniques of Western art, as well as providing concise biographies of nearly three thousand artists, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary Americans.

Genres: Art

559 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 1990

About the author

Sir David Towry Piper CBE FSA FRSL (21 July 1918 – 29 December 1990) was a British museum curator and author. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery & Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.

Under the pseudonym Peter Towry, Piper wrote a number of novels, including Trial by Battle (1959), a story based on his experiences as an officer in the Indian army, training in Bangalore and then seeing action against the Imperial Japanese Army in Malaya during World War II. He was subsequently a prisoner of war in Japan for three years.

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[Beau Daignault · Rating 3 out of 5]

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