The Art Museum
"Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope, this visually spectacular survey of world art belongs in large public, academic, and special libraries.  Destined to delight, inspire, and educate, as well as become an invaluable classic, art reference resource, it is very highly recommended."-Library JournalStarred Review"A category killer.  Packed with 3,000 large illustrations of the world's greatest artworks."-VOGUE"The dream collection. . .The appeal of having 3,000 years of masterpieces at your fingertips is obvious."-Art & Auction"If this [The Art Museum] were a real museum and not just a book, there would hardly be need for another."-NPR's"All Things Considered""If the world's best curators could create a collection containing every notable work for all time, its catalog would resembleThe Art Museum."-Conde Nast Traveler"It's an original and compelling concept: a book conceived and organized to resemble a museum - one that happens to take readers on a tour of art history from King Tut to Jackson Pollack and beyond."-Worthmagazine"The 2,500 works that really matter in 1,000 stunning pages."-Reader's Digest"The monster of all Christmas art books, this year and maybe for a while. . .this tome is chock-full of things you don't often see reproduced on this scale, and other things you may not even know about and will love on sight."-The New York Times". . .as in an actual museum, once you plunge into its 990-some pages, you risk getting lost.  So turn off the stove, walk the dog, and text the kids before you spend the evening looking at vase paintings and no one hears from you again."-Town & Country". . .an astonishing book. . .an exciting, nearly perfect collection of the greatest visual art in human history. . .The scope of the book encourages readers to make unexpected connections, as when rooms devoted to African masks and carvings usher us into a section on the Cubists, hinting at the affinities between the two."-BookPage"If someone asks you, 'What is art?' youcouldlaunch into a lecture.  Or you could just hand them this battering ram of a book."-Entertainment Weekly"An encyclopedic art museum between covers, with "permanent" holdings for some 3,000creme-de-la-cremeobjects appropriated from collections around the globe."- Holland Cotter forThe New York TimesBook Review"The boldest publishing experiment of 2011."-NPR"Not only doesThe Art Museumshowcase rarely seen works from private collections, it also benefits from the wisdom of 65 of the world's most respected curators and art historians. . .this extensive compendium is easy to digest."-The Washington Post". . .you couldn't give a more impressive gift. . .Imagine some ten-year-old getting lost in it over Christmas."- Blake Gopnik forThe Daily Beast.com"An astonishing book?an exciting, nearly perfect collection of the greatest visual art in human history."-Bookpage". . .the most colossal and ambitious publication in the field. . .Indeed, it has some of the characteristics of a real museum, among them an invitation to wander on and on. . .Recommended."-Bloomberg News"Like a world-class museum that fits on a coffee table."-USAnetwork.com"Planning a trip to Paris to visit the Louvre?  Headed to New York City for a tour of the MoMA?  Cancel those plans.  All you need isThe Art Museum."-The National Post, Canada". . .the book is a perfect crash course for art-world novices and a collectible for experts."-ELLE.com