Close reading : Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait /
Friedman, Martin,1925-2016.
New York : Harry N. Abrams,
2005.
Includes index.
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 descendants 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Close, Chuck, 1940-
Self-portraits.
Artists
Artists