Illustrated throughout, some in color, some folding plates. 160 pages. Tall slim 4to, glossy printed wrappers. Princeton: Princeton University Press & Houston: Blaffer Gallery, (2003). First softcover edition. A near fine copy of this scarce catalogue.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration

Publisher

Princeton University Press, Princeton

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

069111577X

ISBN 13

9780691115771

Binding

paperback

Illustrator

Close, Chuck

Edition

First.

Condition

near fine

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Synopsis

Chuck Close--a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble"--has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints.

Featuring exquisite reproductions of the prints together with essays on Close's career and in-depth interviews with the artist and his master printmakers, the volume blends words and images to give readers unique insight into the creative process. The text highlights the intensely collaborative nature of Close's project and looks into the challenges posed by the unprecedented huge scale he prefers. Close may labor on a single print for as long as two years, working out aesthetic problems that might involve the retrieval of a centuries-old European method on one day and the creation of an entirely new technique (such as applying sunscreen to block light) the next. "Prints have moved me in my unique work more than anything else has," Close says. "Prints change the way I think about things.?

From the artist's ambitious first mezzotint to his recent pulp-paper multiples, this book chronicles the genius of Chuck Close in the medium in which he has done his most exciting work. Taken together, these prints constitute a remarkable self-portrait of the creative drive, vision, and intellect of one of America's most important living artists.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston

September 13-November 23, 2003

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

January 13-April 18, 2004

Miami Art Museum, Florida

May 14-August 22, 2004

Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee

October 29, 2004-March 27, 2005

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

April 16-August 7, 2005

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

September 6-December 4, 2005

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

April 16-June 28, 2006

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin

July 29 - October 6, 2006

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

January 28-April 20, 2007

Boise Art Museum, Idaho

May 12-August 11, 2007

Portland Art Museum, Oregon

September-December 2007

About the Author

Terrie Sultan is Director and Chief Curator of Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. Her publications include Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson, Kerry James Marshall, and Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal. Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at the University of Texas. The author of C�zanne and the End of Impressionism, he is coauthor of Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure (Princeton) and the editor of several other books.

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