Chuck Close: Work, Revised and Expanded

Finch, Christopher

ISBN 10: 379134918X / ISBN 13: 9783791349183

Published by Prestel, 2014

About this Item

368pp. Tan cloth boards, black lettering, unclipped jacket. Text and photography is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and cornerwear; smudging on textblock corners; moderate jacketwear, jacket edgewear and small edge tears.

Seller Inventory # 109733

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chuck Close: Work, Revised and Expanded
• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 379134918X
• ISBN 13: 9783791349183
• Binding: Folio Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • ART

About this title

Synopsis

Now available in a newly revised and expanded edition, this book offers the definitive critical examination of one of America’s most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture more than four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by Minimalism and Conceptualism. Close has since explored the possibilities implicit in his original breakthrough in an array of media. This lavish, large-format volume deals with all aspects of Close’s career and places them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch’s insight into Close’s achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. The author provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close’s portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and 1970s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past decades. Featuring 365 illustrations, the book surveys almost all of Close’s paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of prints and multiples and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but also the extraordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

About the Author

Christopher Finch is an artist and author. His many books include the bestsellers The Art of Walt Disney and the novel Good Girl, Bad Girl.