Chuck Close: Work: Revised Edition (Signed)

Christopher Finch (author); Chuck Close (artist/subject)

ISBN 10: 3791344668 / ISBN 13: 9783791344669

Published by Prestel, Munich, 2010

About this Item

First printing of the revised edition. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean copy, in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by both Finch and Close on the half-title page (as pictured). Ferry-Art.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3028

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chuck Close: Work: Revised Edition (Signed)
• Publisher: Prestel, Munich
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3791344668
• ISBN 13: 9783791344669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost 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 an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place 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. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his 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 the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

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Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost 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.