Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most comprehensive history of art ever published in a single volume
John Fleming is Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Texas State University.
It would take years of reading to learn the vocabulary succinctly provided in Word Power. The dictionary contains everything from slang (cool, zulued) to scholarship (soliloquy, archaic smile), to science (azimuth), with some added hokum (Montezuma's revenge). Each entry is de...