The American Art Book
- ISBN-10
- 0714841196
- ISBN-13
- 9780714841199
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 520
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-06-13
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Author
- Editors of Phaidon Press
Description
Presents five hundred artists and their works, ranging from Puritanist portraits and the luminous paintings of the Hudson River School to the digital works of today's Conceptual artists, arranged in alphabetical order.
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