Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935640800 ISBN 13: 9780935640809

Publisher: Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005

Synopsis

A celebrated, popular and influential figure in American art, Chuck Close has focused exclusively, and with great innovation, on the genre of portraiture. This exhibition, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, explores the artist's work in self-portraiture over four decades and across a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, collage, and printmaking. The first comprehensive museum survey of Close's self-portraits, the exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a fascinating glimpse of an artist's self-examination and evolution over time and elucidate his unbounded, process-driven experimentation with media and techniques. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink-jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray-scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111-color screenprint. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0935640800
• ISBN 13: 9780935640809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: Engberg Siri, Grynsztejn Madeleine