Hardcover. 2007. First edition and first printing.
Large retrospective monograph on American artist Chuck Close. Features text by Christopher Finch. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, list of previous exhibitions, a bibliography, list of works illustrated and an index. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket.
Signed by Close and Finch.
This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch's insight into CLose's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his prints and multiples, and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.