Medium:  Catalog Item #:  12257 Name:  San Diego Museum of Art: Selected Works Price:  $25.00                            About this item... Opening a copy of Selected Works allows a leisurely tour of the finest works of the Museum: a rare inscribed copper-gilt Guanyin bodhisattva from twelfth-century China; exquisite Asian porcelains and enamels; incomparable prints by the twentieth-century American master George Wesley Bellows; the only authenticated painting by Giorgione in the United States; brilliant Indian miniature paintings, arresting in their immediacy and detail; and a dazzling array of Italian Renaissance and Old Master works-by Giotto, Rubens. El Greco, Zurbaran, and Jusepe de Ribera, among many others. The Museum houses an extraordinary survey of Impressionist and modernist masterpieces, both by European masters and their American counterparts-with brilliant examples by Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Dufy, Braque, OKeeffe, Marin, and Dove lavishly illustrated here. The catalogue concludes with treasures of contemporary art: the Abstract Expressionists, the work of Pop and Op masters, and splendid examples of postmodernist art: a minimalist photographic triptych by Uta Barth; Pae Whites delicate mobile of thread and paper; and Luis Jimenezs fiberglass sculpture Border Crossing/Cruzando el Rio Bravo. With contributions from San Diego Museum of Art Director Don Bacigalupi, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Curator of American Art, D. Scott Atkinson, Curator of European Art, Steven Kern, Curator of Asian Art, Caron Smith, Ph.D., Curator of Modern Art, Betti-Sue Hertz, Assistant Curator, European Art, Claudia Leos, and Curatorial Administrator, Rachel Evans the San Diego Museum of Art: Selected Works comes in both hardcover and soft cover and stands as a museum treasury between book covers, allowing readers to take away the museum experience and repeat it-in the process growing closer to art and making it their own.