One of the easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions ...

What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

Critique of Macmillan's 34-volume Dictionary of art including reviews: "A vast compendium of knowledge," by Richard Brilliant; "Dreaming of the digital edition," by Janis Ekdahl; "Everything but S, M, ...

"First published in Great Britain by Routledge, London"--Title page verso. This collection of over 3000 quotations not only records the diverse responses inspired by artists and their art through the ...

In my dictionary, art is defined as the human effort to, among other things, imitate the work of nature. It would seem to me, then, that the world we live in and every natural element of it is a ...

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...