Bibliograph

Brand-new & terrific, Alex Katz in the 1950s, Diana Tuite ; with essays by Katy Siegel, Richard Shiff and Eva Díaz

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Brand-new & terrific, Alex Katz in the 1950s, Diana Tuite ; with essays by Katy Siegel, Richard Shiff and Eva Díaz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brand-new & terrific

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Responsibility statement

Diana Tuite ; with essays by Katy Siegel, Richard Shiff and Eva Díaz

Sub title

Alex Katz in the 1950s

Summary

Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s, Alex Katz set out to reinvent representational painting by applying lessons learned from postwar abstraction. Initially, he struggled to find an audience, destroying hundreds of canvases. This book is the first survey of the artwork from this momentous decade, one in which Katz began to paint outdoors, innovated with collages, invented the cutout, and met Ada del Moro, his wife and muse. The authors consider how he and his peers borrowed from one another, leaning on photography and mining both nineteenth-century portraiture and other creative arts, and examine his conceptual investment in serial imagery. The result is a fascinating study of a young artist laying the groundwork for an astonishingly successful career, and a fresh look at the aesthetic exchanges among painters in and around the New York School

Table Of Contents

A Representational World in our Time / Diana Tuite -- Manual of Style / Katy Siegel -- Ahead of Your Mind / Richard Shiff -- Reduplication and "the Double" / Eva Diaz -- PLATES -- Alex Katz : an early career chronology

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