Los Angeles County Museum of Art (World of Art)

An illustrated guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest and most comprehensive art museum in the western United States. The text is written by the curators of the museum and accompanies reproductions of works from each of the museum's eleven departments, integrated into five sections: Asian, European, Latin American, American, and modern and contemporary art. LACMA is the youngest of the nation's leading encyclopedic institutions, yet its collections have rapidly expanded to include over 100,000 works of art: from prehistory to contemporary civilization, from every part of the world, and in all media - painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, costume, textiles and photography.