Mark Hawkins-Dady

David Pickering

Leanda Shrimpton

Helen Ottaway

Judith M. Kass

This volume includes actors, directors and designers and contains 300 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the individual, a complete list of roles and/or theatre productions, and a bibliography critical books and articles about the entrant.

International Dictionary of Theatre: Actors, directors, and designers

Colin Naylor

Part of the Contemporary Arts Series this text presents 450 works of art, photography, architecture and design. It includes Andy Warhol's Marilyn, Piano and Rogers' Centre Beaubourg, Karsh's Winston Churchill, Alec Issigonis' Mini Major and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother.

Contemporary Masterworks

Martha Bremser

Larraine Nicholas

Arranged alphabetically from Adolphe Adam to Jiri Kylian, this reference includes entries on individual artists, individual ballets, and on ballet companies.

International Dictionary of Ballet

Nicholas Thomas

James Vinson

Samantha Cook

Each entry contains information, lists of cast and crew, a select bibliography and an essay by a specialist in the field. Many include a still shot.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Directors

Delia Gaze

Maja Mihajlovic

Contains substantial entries on 600 fine artists born before 1945. The emphasis is historical, focusing on the Western tradition of painting and sculpture, and exploring the problems women encountered in trying to obtain adequate training and professional recognition. Introductory essays examine training opportunities, the changing conditions of work for women since the medieval period, the contribution of women to the applied arts, and training and professionalism in 19th and 20th century Europe, Russia, North America and Australasia. Entries include biographical information, a list of principle exhibitions, selected writings, a bibliography, a representative work, and a description of critical reception, professional and artistic development, individual works and philosophies, and the artist's influences, contemporaries and companions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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