Each of these entries offers more than a dozen full-color, full-page reproductions of major works by a 20th-century artist, collected in a thin, near poster-size volume. The color plates are startling in their clarity and brilliance, allowing for scrutiny of the exciting images of Malevich's cubist compositions and spare Suprematist paintings, Hopper's dramatic cityscapes, and Lawrence's expressionist pictures of African-American life. The biographies that offer a prelude to the pictures are highly professional in their descriptions and analyses of the artists' lives and works; the comments are supported by notes and a list for further reading. -- amazon.com
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