Over the past twenty-five years Julie Mehretu has emerged as a major force in American art. Known mostly for her enormous abstract paintings, she also produces exquisite drawings, often created as studies for larger works. This sumptuous volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Mehretu's work. Designed to allow close viewing of Mehretu's enormous canvases, it features lush reproductions of her paintings in their entirety, as well as archival materials that illuminate her process. The genesis for