Ian Chilvers

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1. Michael Kennedy

   Author of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford Paperback Reference), Concise Dictionary of Music: A Guide to Composers, Works, Performers and Musical Terms

2. Kenneth Clark

   Author of Civilization, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, Leonardo da Vinci

3. Editors of Chambers

   Author of Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers Dictionary of World History

4. Margaret Drabble

   Author of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature

5. Edmund Wright

   Author of A Dictionary of World History (Oxford Paperback Reference)

6. David Crystal

   Author of Encyclopedia of Biographies, The Penguin Encyclopedia

7. John Bowker

   Author of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

8. E. H. Gombrich

   Author of The Story of Art, Art and Illusion

9. Alan Isaacs

   Author of A Dictionary of Science (Oxford Paperback Reference)

10. Edward Lucie-Smith

    Author of Movements in Art Since 1945, Art Today, Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists

11. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

    Author of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

12. Arthur Cotterell

    Author of A Dictionary of World Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference)

13. Ian Chilvers

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford Paperback Reference)

14. Simon Blackburn

    Author of The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

15. Simon Schama

    Author of Rembrandt's eyes

16. Percy Alfred Scholes

    Author of The Oxford Companion to Music

17. Gerald F. Brommer

    Author of Collage Techniques: A Guide for Artists and Illustrators, Watercolor and Collage Workshop: Make Better Paintings Through Mastery of Collage Techniques

18. Sir Herbert Edward Read

    Author of A Concise History of Modern Painting

19. John Ruskin

    Author of The Stones of Venice

20. Herschel B. Chipp

    Author of Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art)