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.
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Chuck Close. Very good. Numerous color illustrations, some full page, black, white & color. 184 pages. Tall 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: Rizzoli, 1987. First softcover edition. Very good. From the library of Nan Rosenthal, curator of modern art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & The National Gallery; with her signature and several pages with pencil underlining in text, else fine.
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Good. Folio-over 12-15" tall First published in the U.S. by Rizzoli, 1987, this edition. Light wear. Gift inscription on the half title page. Glue binding split at page 80. But pages are also sewn and holding to place. O12.
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.