Author: Katz, AlePublished on the occasion of the artist’s first US career retrospective in more than 30 years, this volume offers a definitive account of Katz’s artistic project, demonstrating both its marked coherence and restless evolution. Generously illustrated, the book features the full breadth of the artist’s work across mediums and formats, from intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway in the late 1940s to the monumentally scaled landscapes that have dominated his recent production.Across 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 compress the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception. Essays by artists, writers and art historians offer fresh, authoritative overviews of the artist’s practice alongside more focused considerations of specific facets of his art, including his flower paintings, collages, prints, freestanding 'cutouts' and set design collaborations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. A sourcebook of historical reviews, essays and poems rounds out the volume, which offers an overdue reassessment of the artist’s oeuvre.Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide.ISBN 9780892075607. Guggenheim Museum. hb. 384 pages. 360 colour ills. 29 x 23 cm.available
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