Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

the long version

This volume presents colorplates of 142 of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's greatest treasures, each accompanied by a biography of the artist and an essay about the work. Beginning with Impressionism, it also includes every successive movement and every great master of the modern era, many represented by iconic masterpieces. Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery thus represents a superb, comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary art. Covering a century and a half of the creation and collecting of great art, this new edition brings the panorama virtually up to date with recently acquired works in various media by seventeen contemporaries, including John Chamberlain, Chuck Close, Peter Halley, Jenny Holzer, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Mangold, Nam June Paik, Martin Puryear, Edward Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Sean Scully, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Bill Viola.