Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
By: Karen Lee Spaulding, general editor.
Contributors: Spaulding, Karen Lee.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press in associatin with Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Distributed by National Book Network
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York; [Lanahm, MD]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Albright-Knox Art Gallery -- Catalogs.; Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Catalogs.; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs.; Art -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- Catalogs.
Description: 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.
Notes: Enlarged and rev. ed. of: 125 masterpieces from the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Rizzoli, 1987.
Includes index.