Chuck close - Christopher Finch
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KORTE INHOUD
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, i...
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2010Uitgever: Prestel Publishing352 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 3791344668ISBN-13: 9783791344669Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2010, cloth with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Finch, Christopher] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: PRESTEL ART BOOKS] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Chuck Close / Work]
