"In this landmark volume we see Audrey Flack at work and we see the works themselves in progress, together with many superb reproductions of completed paintings. Flack--a leading Photo-Realist and one of the world's foremost women artists--has achieved many distinctions. Flack began as an Abstract Expressionist and gradually became committed to Realism and then to Photo-Realism. But she is a Photo-Realist with a difference, and that difference is her keen interest in the sources of human strength and the causes of human suffering, in beauty, in the issues of her own time. As a result, she has produced a body of work that is exceptionally rich in content and technique."--book jacket.