Bibliograph

Close reading, Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait, Martin Friedman

Type

Label

Close reading, Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait, Martin Friedman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Close reading

Oclc number

58729516

Responsibility statement

Martin Friedman

Sub title

Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait

Table Of Contents

Portrait of the portraitist -- The day of infamy -- Beginnings -- SoHo immersion -- The chosen ones: Close's models -- Photographs into paintings -- Back to the studio -- The power grid -- The magic mark-marker -- Looking into himself: the self-portraits -- Revelations -- The first big one: the 1968 big self-portrait -- The hairy revolutionary: the descendants of a 1975 photograph -- Mid-'70s meditations -- Dotted faces: 1986 and 1987 -- Posthospital mirrorings and phantoms: 1991-95 -- Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997 -- A Jovian close: 2000-01 -- Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks, 2002-03 -- Simplifying the syntax: 2004-05 -- Behind his faces -- Close's artist models -- Artists painting artists -- Richard Artschwager -- Francesco Clemente -- Lyle Ashton Harris -- Jasper Johns -- Alex Katz -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Lucas Samaras -- Cindy Sherman -- Kiki Smith -- William Wegman

Target audience

adult

Classification