American Art Book Book

Phaidon Press created quite a sensation in 1994 when they introduced The Art Book, an accessible and wide-ranging look at 500 of history's most talented painters and sculptors. In The American Art Book, they're using their now-familiar formula to offer this entertaining and educational guide to the major figures in the history of American art. Five hundred artists, from Berenice Abbott to William Zorach, are profiled here, each represented by a full-page color plate of a key work and an essay that serves to place the artist in the context of contemporary movements and those traditions that preceded them. It's the perfect way to celebrate, at millennium's end, 300 years of American art.

Christian Science Monitor - Karen Campbell

...[S]erves as both a coffee-table diversion and a serious, though condensed reference guide....Browsing through the myriad styles, movements and mediums of the book arouses a continual sense of serendipity.