The American Art Book

Description: Amazon.com Review Accessibility is the code word for Phaidon's new 500-page dictionary of American art. The book values images over words, and its longest text is the introduction, which is printed in large, bold face and hardly fills one page. But it does describe the book's mission well: "Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a significant work, accompanied by an informative and engaging text that places the artist in the context of contemporary movements and preceding traditions...."--concise and informative. By arranging the artists alphabetically, the editors set up some odd and amusing juxtapos ... (more)

Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
Release date: 20 May 1999
ISBN-10 : 0714838454 | ISBN-13: 9780641721663

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