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Comprehensive, current information on the individuals involved in contemporary arts Quickly locate artists, critics, curators, administrators, librarians, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, dealers -- everyone who's anyone in the visual arts in the United States. Revised and updated with over 11,600 entries -- some 500 new to this edition -- detailed listings contain entrants' dares and places of birth; education and training; commissions and exhibitions; museums holding their work; professional positions; awards; books and articles by and about them; the media in which they work; their dealers and representatives; and their mailing addresses. Entrants are listed alphabetically by name, and again in a separate Geographical Index. Plus, a Professional Classifications Index identifies all entrants within more than 50 categories -- from Administrator to Mosaic Artist to Writer. A special Necrology Index lists ali previous entrants who have died between 1953 and 1998.