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Alex Katz: Collages is the catalogue raisonna of Katz's early collages, spanning the period from 1954 to 1960. It presents 85 color plates with complete catalogue entries and an essay by Katz scholar David Cohen, critic for the New York Sun, publisher and editor of artcritical.com and curator at the New York Studio School. Cohen's essay argues that the collages are critical to an understanding of Katz's mature work and occupy a significant place within a history of Modernism. In these seminal works, Katz was already developing his unique artistic voice--a vocabulary of elemental forms, aesthetic efficiency and flat color.
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- PublisherColby College Museum of Art
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0972848452
- ISBN 13 9780972848459
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages180
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ALEX KATZ COLLAGES
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(Colby College Museum of Art), (Waterville, ME), 2005
ISBN 10: 0972848452
ISBN 13: 9780972848459
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Condition: Near fine. First printing. First edition of this handsomely illustrated catalogue, inscribed with thanks by Katz to poet Kenward Elmslie, a lender to the exhibition and a friend and subject of the artist. The majority of Katz's collages date from 1954-1960, belonging to an experimental period in the artist's long career and capturing drama on a small scale: "Their size is intimate but the scale is vast," Frank O'Hara wrote. Their delicacy and "feminine" (so-called) palette, Cohen writes, was taken as a deliberate provocation by Provincetown's roving hordes of hostile Abstract Expressionists, "which to a considerable extent they were." After this half-decade of exploration, Katz made a decisive pivot to contemporary portraiture, a mode which later produced his collaborative "Face of the Poet" project with Ted Berrigan, Gerald Malanga, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Michael Lally, Ann Lauterbach, Alice Notley, John Perreault, Carter Ratcliff, Rene Ricard, Peter Schjeldahl, Tony Towle, Bill Zavatsky, and Kenward Elmslie, to whom this copy is inscribed. A warm and intimate association. 8.25 x 9.25''. Original pictorial boards. No jacket, as issued. Blue endpapers. 179, [1] pages. Inscribed by Alex Katz on half-title page: "Hey Kenward, Many thanks for the loan. best wishes, Alex 12.20.05." Minor bumping and edgewear. Seller Inventory # 49820
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