Alex Katz
- ISBN-10
- 0847866181
- ISBN-13
- 9780847866182
- Series
- Alex Katz
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-13
- Publisher
- Rizzoli Publications
- Author
- Carter Ratcliff
Description
The definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development of Katz's singular American style. 2020 GOLD WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN ART Alex Katz has found his audience. It's not the first time. Over seven decades, the artist has developed his vision with determination as the tides of avant-garde and academic fashion ebbed and flowed. His first audience was other painters (including de Kooning and Philip Guston), and today, still, he is perhaps best understood by other artists: those who appreciate how difficult it is to make something so simple, so well. Working in a representational style while his classmates celebrated Abstract Expressionism, eschewing slick surfaces for a pared-down view while his peers went glossy with Pop, Katz cleaved to one vision, a few locations, and subjects. Katz's endurance and commitment to developing an original American style is explored in depth, from his boyhood influences to an artistic circle that included John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Lois Dodd, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Fairfield Porter, Yvonne Rainer, Larry Rivers, and Paul Taylor. Sketches, works on paper, and archival material selected by the artist's son, the poet Vincent Katz, give a fuller picture of the painter and his world. The more than 250 paintings--reproduced at an unprecedented scale--will be the most comprehensive collection available in a single publication.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Brand-New and Terrific: Alex Katz in The 1950s
By Richard Shiff, Katy Siegel, Eva DíazPublished in association with the Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. AUTHOR: Diana Tuite is the Katz Curator at the Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. 150 colour illustrations
-
Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra
By Alex Katz, Lisa Liebmann, Vittoria CoenIn over 40 years of activity, Alex Katz has established himself as one of the leading American painters of the 20th century. His work in three main genres -- landscape,...
-
Alex Katz
By Robert Storr, Carter Ratcliffe, Iwona BlazwickHis works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, among many others.
-
Looking at Art with Alex Katz
By Alex KatzDescribing his personal encounters with the work of over 90 key artists, Katz's observations offer a fluent, vivid and incisive view, making Looking at Art with Alex Katz the perfect guide both for those looking for an introduction to the ...
-
Alex Katz, the Complete Prints
By Carter Ratcliff, Alex Katz, Nicholas P. MaravellAlex Katz, the Complete Prints
-
Alex Katz
By Gavin Brown's enterprise2019 GBE exhibition
-
Alex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective
By Carter Ratcliff, Paul D. Schweizer, Alex KatzAlex Katz: A Drawing Retrospective
-
Alex Katz, this is Now
By Vincent Katz, Margaret Graham, Michael RooksPublished on the occasion of the exhibition, Alex Katz, This Is Now, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 21-September 6, 2015, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, October 16, 2015-January 31, 2016.
-
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
By Alex KatzAlex Katz: Subject to Reversal
-
Alex Katz in Maine
By Alex KatzAlex Katz is one of the most influential painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he has...