Close reading
Subtitle: Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait
By: Martin Friedman.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Close, Chuck, -- 1940-; Self-portraits; Artists -- United States -- Portraits; Artists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Portraits; Biography
Notes: Includes index.

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