One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy, awash in an always flawless beauty which lends them a coolness verging on lifeless. Without ever cutting too deep, Katz's focus remains on the brilliance of surface--both his paintings' and his subjects'. Since the beginning of the 60s, Katz has been quoting the oversized formats of ...
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One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy, awash in an always flawless beauty which lends them a coolness verging on lifeless. Without ever cutting too deep, Katz's focus remains on the brilliance of surface--both his paintings' and his subjects'. Since the beginning of the 60s, Katz has been quoting the oversized formats of large-scale Pepsi and Lucky Strike advertisements and the dramatic compositions of film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Simultaneously, if somewhat less famously, he started to "cut out" his figure paintings in order to carry the surface quality of his depictions to the extreme--first in oil on wood, later in aluminum. The exquisite book at hand presents, for the first time, a broad selection of Katz's silhouette sculptures.
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Near Fine unmarked. Catalog of an art exhibition Feb 21-Mar 17, 1979, with reproductions and intrepretive essay. Nice bright clean copy of scarce item. 8-1/4 x 8, unnumbered pp, text on pink stock, b/w reproductions on white glossy stock.
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VG-(Light scuffing to wraps; Small label at rear cover) Color illus. wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 40 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Accompanied a 1979 gallery exhibition; Includes an essay by Carter Ratcliff.
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Near Fine in Fine Condition jacket. Book Handsomely 96 page printed monograph on the seminal artist's body of work that blurs the line between painting and sculpture, with 91 works reproduced in beautiful full color. Text is in both German and English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Deichtorhallen Hamburg February 13-April 27, 2003. Catalogue of Exhibition.
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New in fine dust jacket. Jacket is in new condition but has very slight wrinkle at bottom corner. Ship in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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New. 3775713042. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English and German. 96 pp. With 75 col. Ills. 28 x 17 cm. --with a bonus offer--; 0.52 x 10.82 x 6.58 Inches.
