Chuck Close: Work - Rilegato

Finch, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 3791344668 ISBN 13: 9783791344669

Casa editrice: Prestel Pub, 2010

Riassunto

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since explored an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch's insight into CLose's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his prints and multiples, and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

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Recensione:

"Christopher Finch, in this engrossing and erudite monograph on Chuck Close, has written a book which is stranger than fiction (as fact so often is), with a wealth of perceptive analysis and interpretation which puts much imaginative literature in the shade. Would that all books on artists were so enjoyable and enlightening" - --The Art Book, May 2009

L'autore:

Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey, studied at Chelsea Art School and has written for Art & Artists, Art International and British Vogue. Finch met Chuck Close when he was Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Since then he has written dozens of books on art, popular culture, and social history.

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• Editore: Prestel Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3791344668
• ISBN 13: 9783791344669
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352