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 bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Portrait of the portraitist; value: The day of infamy; value: Beginnings; value: Soho immersion; value: The chosen ones; value: Close's models; value: Photographs into paintings; value: Back to the studio; value: The power grid; value: The magic mark-marker; value: Looking into himself: the self-portraits; value: Revelations; value: The first big one: the 1968 big self-portrait; value: The hairy revolutionary: the descendents of a 1975 photograph; value: Mid-70s meditations; value: Dotted faces: 1986 and 1987; value: Post-hospital mirrorings and phantoms: 1991-1995; value: Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997; value: A Jovian close: 2000-2001; value: Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks; value: Behind his faces; value: Memory games; value: Close's artist models; value: Artists painting artists; value: Richard Artschwager; value: Francesco Clemente; value: Lyle Ashton Harris; value: Jasper Johns; value: Alex Katz; value: Robert Rauschenberg; value: Lucas Samaras; value: Cindy Sherman; value: Kiki Smith; value: William Wegman; value: Coda.   borah Aaronson; phone: 212-229-7175; fax: 212-229-0312; email: daaronson@abramsbooks.com; bc: plowry@abramsbooks.com