Text Chuck Close (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 125 pages, chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Includes text by noted playwright John Guare. *** "In December 1988, at a high point of his career, a collapsed spinal artery left the painter Chuck Close paralyzed from the shoulders down. He was famous by then for his monumental portraits that deconstructed the conventional notions of identity and personality. Now Close was forced to confront his own identity: could a paralyzed man make monumental art? Three years later, a show of new Close paintings appeared; to the astonishment of the art world, they were as large and powerful as ever. Not only had he found a way to paint his physically demanding portraits again; they had also been transformed. A more impressionistic and dynamic vision now throbbed from his canvases with new emotional intensity. In this book, Close has collaborated with his friend, playwright John Guare, to produce a narrative account that tells the story of what Close calls "the event": the day of the trauma itself, the months of slowly recovering the minimal movement that allows him to still paint, and the transformation of his art as a result. The book also brings together all of his new paintings from the last seven years, including images of Roy Lichtenstein, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, and other major contemporary artists. Taking the reader even further into his vision, Close brings Guare behind the canvas and into the Polaroid studio to photograph him as a potential subject for a new portrait. With a unique combination of documentary photographs and commentary, Close shows how he conceives and begins the process of making a portrait, and how the subject plays a role in shaping the final image." - Publisher. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 4to. 335 pp., (1). b/w and color illustrations throughout. Tan cloth boards lettered in black at spine. Illustrated jacket. Minor bump to top corner of rear board. Near Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. In mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Quarto, 184 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white with black and blue print. Dust jacket has b&w artist portrait on rear panel; light edge wear, shrinking of plastic film on front panel. Boards in pink cloth; slight wear to spine caps and corners, toning to bottom edge. Text block has spine break at page 80. Illustrated: color and b&w. Inscribed in ink by the artist on page [7]. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Net Desk work area. 1405357. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: New. Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time. Editor(s): Holland, Nina; Sohn, Jerry. Num Pages: 24 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 348 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1274. . 2010. Paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. Chuck Close immediately liked the idea of a book without words. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. This book is a self-portrait that emerges out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time. Editor(s): Holland, Nina; Sohn, Jerry. Num Pages: 24 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 348 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1274. . 2010. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.