Chuck Close: Work - Hardcover

Christopher Finch

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ISBN 10: 3791344668 ISBN 13: 9783791344669

Publisher: Prestel, 2010

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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 the possibilities implicit in his original breakthrough in 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 1960's and '70's to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations featured in the book survey almost all of Close's paintings and include his most recent work, 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 extraordinary 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.

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"Christopher Finch, in this engrossing and erudite monograph on Chuck Close, has written a book which is stranger than fiction (as fact so often is), with a wealth of perceptive analysis and interpretation which puts much imaginative literature in the shade. Would that all books on artists were so enjoyable and enlightening" - --The Art Book, May 2009

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