Alex Katz: First Sight Working Drawings

Katz, Alex and Jean Christophe Ammann

ISBN 10: 0935875204 / ISBN 13: 9780935875201

Published by Peter Blum Edition, 2004

About this Item

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 420 pages, very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # AlKaPe100

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alex Katz: First Sight Working Drawings
• Publisher: Peter Blum Edition
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935875204
• ISBN 13: 9780935875201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Since 1945

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Synopsis

In the more than 500 working drawings by Alex Katz reproduced here, we are able to look over the artist's shoulder at works in their nascent state--a rare experience essential to any understanding of the artist's oeuvre. Like a sculptor's preparatory drawings, these are the sketches of a painter who is not a draftsman but a painter; they are the raw material, revealing Katz's methods of looking and recording. Contours, overlappings, movements and attitudes are put to paper ever so quickly, with observation given top priority. Subject development, composition and memory are all elements that come about afterwards, when the artist takes up the paintbrush and moves to the canvas. First Sight contains a vast array of previously unpublished sketches and drawings, printed here in facsimile, at a scale of 1:1, and spanning the entire career of the artist, from 1950 to the present. The book is a limited edition of 1000 copies.