Includes almost 13,000 biographical articles on American artists, painters, sculptors, and engravers including information on exhibitions, awards, organizational membership, collections, etc.

For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies-capitalism and communism-and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union. This work is first a general history of the Cold War, with an overview of its root causes and the policies and theories that were in place from 1947 through 1990. A thoroughly annotated chronology of important...