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| The American Art Book (Mini Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Phaidon
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 346568
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 520
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 4.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0714841196
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780714841199
ASIN: 0714841196
Publication Date: May 31, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Accessibility is the code word for Phaidon's new 500-page dictionary of American art. Valuing images over words, the longest text is the book's introduction, which, printed in large, bold face hardly fills one page. But it does describe its mission well: "Each artist is represented by a full-page colour 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 juxtapositions. For example, the suited subject of an Alice Neel painting appears to speak and gesticulate excitedly about the over-stacked cornucopia of Louise Nevelson's crates found on the opposing page. The caption over each work includes four artists' names in bold print that function as hyper-links of a sort, allowing readers to skip, for example, from Willem de Kooning's Woman I to Jean Michel Basquiat's Skull to Alfred Maurer's cubist-like painting Woman with Curlers. This way, with each visit to the to The American Art Book, readers can discover and follow countless narratives throughout the three centuries of American art. Filled with large, expertly reproduced images, The American Art Book is, like its cousins The Photography Book and The 20th Century Art Book, a high-quality and surprisingly inexpensive volume that would be a worthy addition to any art-lover's library. -- Loren E. Baldwin, Amazon.com
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Hours of wonder and delight! February 20, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
An alphabetical, stunning tour of art, history, ideas and cultures of the United States---it's been my treasure 'box' for a month now. It's withstood the battering it's gotten , as it's been carted from room to room, beautifully. The quality of the reproduced art is stunning and the short history of each piece and its artist has given me much to link and think about. It's only drawback is print so small it requires effort to read---but then, that has led to a finer absorption of this cornucopia for me. I've returned to buy copies for friends undergoing medical procedures on both sides of the Atlantic, as I think The American Book of Art will help anyone focus on it's awesomeness rather than on their own troubles. Mighty moving and entertaining book; worth far more than it's price!
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