جزییات کتاب
The editor and contributing associates to this volume have attempted to establish a just proportion between the past and the present, the purely factual and the essentially critical, the Orient and the Occident, the specifically biographical entry and the general descriptive entry or definition. Features of special interest to both the general public and the student if art include an extensive section on the Orient (China, Japan, India, and Persia), a thoroughgoing but selective section on art in the United States, and an equally inclusive coverage of the many European and other countries contributing to the art of our own times.