Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005

Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005

A celebrated, popular and influential figure in American art, Chuck Close has focused exclusively, and with great innovation, on the genre of portraiture. This exhibition, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, explores the artist's work in self-portraiture over four decades and across a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, collage, and printmaking. The first comprehensive museum survey of Close's self-portraits, the exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a fascinating glimpse of an artist's self-examination and evolution over time and elucidate his unbounded, process-driven experimentation with media and techniques. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink-jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray-scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111-color screenprint. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.

Country	USA
Artist	Chuck Close
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
EAN	9780935640809
Edition	1st
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0935640800
Label	Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Manufacturer	Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	152
PublicationDate	2005-08-15
Publisher	Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SKU	VI-0935640800
Studio	Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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