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"Comprehensive...a key tool for basic bibliographical directory information in the fine arts."--AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL. "Essential in large public libraries & academic collections & in libraries supporting art schools, museums & galleries."--BOOKLIST. Quickly locate artists, critics, curators, administrators, librarians, historians, collectors, dealers - everyone who's anyone in the visual arts in the U.S., Canada & Mexico. Revised & updated with over 11,800 entries - some 700 new to this edition - the guide's concise listings detail entrants' date & place of birth; education & training, commissions, exhibitions, professional positions, & awards (all dated by year); museums holding their work; books & articles by & about them; the media they work in; & their dealer or representative & mailing address. Entrants are indexed principally by name, & there's a separate Geographic Index plus a Classification Index that lists all entrants by profession under more than 50 categories - from Administrator to Mosaic Artist to Writer. A special necrology also lists all figures who have died from 1953 through 1992. Updated biennially & available on standing order.Bowker Staff is the author of 'Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994' with ISBN 9780835232746 and ISBN 0835232743.
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