An edition of Close reading (2005)

Close reading

Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait

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An edition of Close reading (2005)

Close reading

Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait

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Harry N. Abrams
Language
English
Pages
343

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2005, Harry N. Abrams
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2005, Harry N. Abrams
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Portrait of the portraitist
The day of infamy
Beginnings
SoHo immersion
The chosen ones: Close's models
Photographs into paintings
Back to the studio
The power grid
The magic mark-marker
Looking into himself: the self-portraits
Revelations
The first big one: the 1968 big self-portrait
The hairy revolutionary: the descendents of a 1975 photograph
Mid-'70s meditations
Dotted faces: 1986 and 1987
Posthospital mirrorings and phantoms: 1991-95
Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997
A Jovian close: 2000-01
Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks, 2002-03
Simplifying the syntax: 2004-05
Behind his faces
Close's artist models
Artists painting artists
Richard Artschwager
Francesco Clemente
Lyle Ashton Harris
Jasper Johns
Alex Katz
Robert Rauschenberg
Lucas Samaras
Cindy Sherman
Kiki Smith
William Wegman
Coda.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Portraits, Biography

Classifications

Library of Congress
N6537.C54 F75 2005

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Pagination
343 p. :
Number of pages
343

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23240015M
ISBN 10
0810959208
LCCN
2005008913
Library Thing
1217900
Goodreads
621436

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