Chuck Close Work (New ed) /anglais - Hardcover

Finch, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 379134918X ISBN 13: 9783791349183

Verlag: Prestel, 2014

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"Christopher Finch has written the most thorough consideration of Close's life and work yet. His massive book handsomely illustrates every phase of Close's art and every stage in its making." - Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle. Chuck Close: Work - brings all [Close's] work together, and the result is astonishing. Like all great art, Close's is work that demands to be reckoned with - work that forces us to shift our perspective." - Michael Hainey, GQ

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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 the possibilities implicit in his original breakthrough in an array of media. This lavish, large-format volume deals with all aspects of Close's career and places 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. The author provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and 1970s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past decades. Featuring 365 illustrations, the book surveys almost all of Close's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of 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 also the extraordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

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• Verlag: Prestel
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 379134918X
• ISBN 13: 9783791349183
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370