'Splendidly bonkers' - Professor Derek Matravers, Open University

A New Dictionary of Art offers ​a fresh approach to the problem of 'What is Art?'
​3,000 definitions of 'art' compiled from the internet and edited for accuracy and completeness to the point of absurdity.
​A streetwise cacophony of creativity. 

A New Dictionary of Art

One word: 3,000 definitions
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A New Dictionary of Art

£10.00 - £15.00

246 pages.


"Curse you Robert Good! If only you had published your book when I first started Art School! How much more illuminated my traversing of the path into territory unknown could have been, had I been enlightened by the collected perceptions, definitions and opinions collated in A New Dictionary of Art..."

Natalie Parsley, artist and blogger at Spanner in the Workz

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A New Dictionary of Art offers ​a fresh approach to the problem of 'What is Art?'

​3,000 definitions of 'art' compiled from the internet and edited for accuracy and completeness to the point of absurdity.



​A streetwise cacophony of creativity.
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