According to The New York Times Book Review it is the "most ambitious art-publishing venture of the late 20th century".
[2] Almost half the content covers non-Western subjects, and contributors hail from 120 countries.
Topics range from Julia Margaret Cameron to Shoji Hamada, Korea to Timbuktu, the Enlightenment to Marxism, and Yoruba masks to Abstract Expressionism.
The dictionary is still available in a standard hardcover edition, though the leather-bound version appears to be out of print.
[3][4] The online version is now published by Oxford University Press, is updated three times a year, is available by subscription and includes some extra content.