For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films—among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, and Gosford Park—that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engage­ment. Altman, a visual survey of this quintessentially American artist, brims with photographs and ephemera from Altman’s archive. His widow, Kathryn, contributes recollections of family life, while film critic Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan places Altman in the context of the public intellectual. Featured are contributions from Altman’s collaborators and contemporaries, including Frank Barhydt, E. L. Doctorow, Roger Ebert, Jules Feiffer, Julian Fellowes, James Franco, Tess Gallagher, Pauline Kael, Garrison Keillor, Michael Murphy, Lily Tomlin, Alan Rudolph, Michael Tolkin, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.