For the past 30 years, American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940) has concentrated on essentially one subject: the human face. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Close's work yet published, includes portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Lucas Samaras, and others. It accompanies a mid-career retrospective opening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in February 1998. 178 illustrations, 113 in color.
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For the past 30 years, American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940) has concentrated on essentially one subject: the human face. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Close's work yet published, includes portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Lucas Samaras, and others. It accompanies a mid-career retrospective opening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in February 1998. 178 illustrations, 113 in color.
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Fair. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Publisher:
National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery)
Published:
1999
Alibris ID:
17990617948
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Fine. For the past 30 years, American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940) has had essentially one subject, the human face. Since 1968, when Close made the first of his monumental portraits--an airbrushed black-and-white image of his own head greatly enlarged from a passport-style photograph--he has explored every conceivable formal permutation of this apparently simple representational problem. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Close's work yet published, accompanies a mid-career retrospective exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on February 25, 1998. A leading figure in the New York art world since the early 1970s, Close has recently concentrated on portraits of his artist-friends and colleagues, characterized by colorful patterning and vivid brushwork. Subjects include Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Lucas Samaras, and Lorna Simpson. Here, more than 90 paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs are reproduced, along with details and comparative illustrations.
Publisher:
National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery)
Published:
1999
Alibris ID:
18018591991
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Very Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION-VERY GOOD-PAPERBACKlight wear and scuff marks to cover, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
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4to, pp. 224. Bibliography, exhibition history. With essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye. Heavily illustrated, much in color. Paper wraps. A nice copy. 113 color plates and 75 b/w illustrations-published to coincide with the 1998-1999 retrospective American showings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Seattle Art Museum and the 1999 showing at the Hayward Gallery in London, England, of portraits by American artist Chuck Close (b.1940), incl. those of Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, Lorna Simpson and Robert Rauschenberg-essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye-interview with Robert Storr-plates-.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2. 184 page hardcover with b/w and color illustrations showing the monumental portraits of Chuck Close. Dust jacket is bright, crisp and clean. Full salmon colored cloth with title on spine in gold and Chuck Close name embossed on front. The cloth has a very faint small dampstain on front and back bottom-hardly visible and has no affect on the condition or appearance. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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Near fine condition. Very good+ condition (DJ) Book. Folio. 224 pages. Hardcover binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with a few small scuffs and creases; protected in archival mylar. Contains 113 color plates and 75 black and white illustrations. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
This is a book to have if you are a huge fan of Chuck Close. The images are very good quality. I haven't found a Chuck Close book to lack in information or to be boring.