Alex Katz : gathering

Book 2022

"Across nearly eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz has sought to capture a state of "absolute awareness" in paint. Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of "quick things passing," compressing the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception. Published on the occasion of the artist's first US career retrospective in m...

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ISBN:

9780892075607

Description:

383 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alex Katz: Gathering ... Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 21, 2022-February 20, 2023"--Copyright page
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Director's foreword / Richard Armstrong
Acknowledgments / Katherine Brinson
Minor subjects / David Breslin
Personal effects in Alex Katz's portraits / Levi Prombaum
The now is sublime: Alex Katz's landscapes / Katherine Brinson
Face is the place / Arthur Jafa
Alex Katz: Abecedarium of a style / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Plates
Wild flowers: Alex Katz's persistent blooms / Prudence Peiffer
Staring blankly: Reflections on Alex Katz's collages / Wayne Koestenbaum
Dance double: Alex Katz's scenography / Kevin Lotery
Together alone : The group paintings of Alex Katz / Katie Kitamura
Surfaces, surfacing: Flatness as physical fact in Alex Katz's work / Jennifer Y. Chuong
Realist illusions: Alex Katz's cutouts / David Max Horowitz
Sourcebook
Selected exhibition history
Selected bibliography
List of plates
Contributors

LCCN:

2022021885

Control Number:

3228839

Other Authors:

Brinson, Katherine, editor
Katz, Alex, 1927- artist
Prombaum, Levi, editor

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