This wonderful book documents one of the hidden gems of the museum scene in the United States: the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. It was published in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the museum (in 2011), but also at a crucial time for the museum itself, since some "wishful thinkers" are currently contemplating the idea of selling off ("deaccessioning" as they say) part of this wonderful collection of modern and contemporary art.The book divides the collection into 6 distinct sections: European and American modernism (Cézanne, Braque, Dix, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley...), Social Realism and Surrealism (Baziotes, Bellows, Dali, Ernst, Magritte...), postwar American art and Abstract Expressionism (which is where the most beautiful treasures of the collection lie, such as a seminal De Kooning of 1961, a fantasmagoric Guston of 1947, a typically grey Jasper Johns of 1957...), Pop art and Minimalism (Jim Dine, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Judd, Andre,Ruscha...), photography and photorealism (Estes, Goings, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Walker Evans...)and cutting-edge contemporary (Bleckner, Barney, Mendieta, Winters...). Of course, this division may at times seem arbitrary (Grosz among the "social realists" and Dix among the "modernists", Staël among "abstract expressionists", Pop art thrown into the same section as minimalism, among other debatable pigeonholings...)but it provides a great overview of an irreplaceable and ever-growing collection.A book which I highly recommend, especially considering the uncertain fate of the collection.All the illustrations are full-page and of a very high quality.