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	Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 by Douglas Nickel, Neal Benezra, Chuck Close
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Product Details Binding Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number 759.13 EAN 9780935640809 ISBN 0935640800 Manufacturer Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 152 Publication Date August 15, 2005 Publisher Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Release Date August 15, 2005 Availability Usually ships in 1 to 4 months Product 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. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink-jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray-scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111-color screenprint. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.' '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. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink-jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray-scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111-color screenprint. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.' Customers who bought this item also bought Chuck Close - A Portrait in Progress Chuck Close Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait Chuck Close: Work Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something Customer Reviews for: Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 Rating - An Artist's Progress: Perception and Representation 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 San Francisco Museum ... Read More See all books by author Douglas Nickel, Neal Benezra, Chuck Close

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