Whitney Museum of American Art

"The Whitney Museum of American Art, which possesses the most comprehensive collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art, has in recent years concentrated on expanding its photography holdings. Drawn from the Whitney's permanent collection, Visions from America offers portraits, landscapes, street-scapes, and genre subjects from both emerging and well-known photographers, including Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Chuck Close,...

This extraordinary book pairs two major talents of our time, the painter/sculptor/printmaker Jasper Johns and the physician/novelist/filmmaker Michael Crichton. Since it first appeared in 1977, Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns has been considered the preeminent study of one of America's foremost living artists. Abrams is proud now to publish this completely revised, expanded, and updated version of a modern classic. Jasper Johns has often been called...