Close reading
Subtitle: Chuck Close and the artist 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.
Description: Chronicles the life and career of innovative contemporary artist Chuck Close, focusing on how he developed his pioneering ideas of scale, form, and color through the theme of portraiture.
Notes: 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; title: 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: Post-hospital mirrorings and phantoms: 1991-1995; title: Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997; title: A Jovian close: 2000-2001; title: Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks; title: Behind his faces; title: Memory games; 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.   borah Aaronson; phone: 212-229-7175; fax: 212-229-0312; email: daaronson@abramsbooks.com; bc: plowry@abramsbooks.com