Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (607 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0935640800 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A celebrated, popular and influential figure in American art, Chuck Close has focused exclusively, and with great innovation, on the genre of portraiture. This exhibition, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, explores the artist's work in self-portraiture over four decades and across a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, collage, and printmaking. The first comprehensive museum survey of Close's self-portraits, the exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a fascinating glimpse of an artist's self-examination and evolution over time and elucidate his unbounded, process-driven experimentation with media and techniques. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intima
An Artist's Progress: Perception and Representation Grady Harp Chuck Close is an artist's artist. During his long career he has created different ways for us to view reality, breaking up images into 'pixels' and then reconstructing those units to enhance the original image. Close works from a wheel chair and yet from that vantage he has created monumental works on paper and canvas that defy imagination.In this fine book, a catalogue accompanying an exhibition co-organized by the Sa