Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes viewers on an emotional journey to the world's largest landfill of the day, Jardim Gramacho. Here the catadores, who number in the thousands, work under the hot sun collecting recyclable materials such as bottles, plastic, and metal to be sold to wholesalers. Muniz invites the catadores to add refuse to his art, photographing the work from overhead. The finished artwork will then be on display in museums...

Comparing modern art not only to pizzas but also to traditional and childrenUs art, a professor of art history shows readers how people can refine analytical tools they already possess to understand and enjoy even the most unfamiliar paintings and sculptures. 49 color illustrations. 40 halftones.

When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case.

Introduces children to twelve modern works of art, offering children and adults a new way of experiencing any work of art.