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The first thirty-seven volumes contain 148,180 biographies written with the help of around 400 specialists worldwide. The six supplementary volumes contain a further 47,229 biographies written almost entirely by Hans
Vollmer. The attention Thieme-Becker-Vollmer paid to non-Western artists, including
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Thieme-Becker-Vollmer has rarely been out of print. Anastatic and photomechanical facsimiles of the original volumes were published from the 1940s to the 1980s, and the entire forty-three-volume set has been reissued in trade paperback (1992), in a student edition (1999), and on CD-ROM (2008). The
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of art scholarship in the first half of the twentieth century. It "remains the most authoritative dictionary of artists" and the most widely consulted reference of its kind, even in
English-speaking countries. The bibliographic sections are considered "outstanding" and "invaluable."
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A 1984 survey found that "Thieme-Becker was the most frequently cited source" used by institutions cataloguing art works. Christine
Hennessey, "The status of name authority control in the cataloging of original art objects,"
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A 1982-83 study found that Thieme-Becker was one of the three "favorite bibliographic tools for art historians in colleges and museums." Deirdre
Corcoran Stam, "How art historians look for information,"
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those from Asia and the
Islamic world, made it a "pioneering enterprise." It is still valued for its coverage of otherwise little-known artists, architects, and designers, and as a
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publication of a six-volume index as late as 1996–1997 was a measure of the work's enduring usefulness.
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