Alex Katz

Antonia Hoerschelmann; Alex Katz - Kartons & Gemälde; Wien Albertina 2004/05
Weltweit zum ersten Mal stellt dieser Band die monumentalen Kartons, die Alex Katz als Vorzeichnungen für seine Gemälde geschaffen hat, dar. Auf diesen großformatigen Zeichnungen fixiert Katz die Konturen der Motive, die anschließend, nach der Übertragung auf die gleich große Leinwand, in die intensiv gleißende Farbigkeit der Katz?schen Malerei übersetzt werden. Für Alex Katz ist Zeichnen das Kernstück seiner Arbeit. Obwohl die Kartons Vorstudien im Entstehungsprozess der Gemälde sind, sieht Alex Katz diese Arbeiten als eigenständige, abgeschlossene Dokumente mit künstlerischer Aussage. Der Band enthält rund 50 Arbeiten auf Papier und Karton, wiedergegeben in großformatigen, aufwändig gedruckten Abbildungen, und einige erläuternde Texte. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Katz (born 1927) won acclaim as the master of cool at the end of the 1980s, or at least after the 1997 exhibition in Hamburg and Zurich of contemporary American art, 'Birth of the Cool', and has become one of the most influential painters of our times. The monumental cartoons that serve as preparatory drawings for Katz?'s paintings have never before been exhibited. In each cartoon he fixes the outlines of a composition before transferring it to a same-size canvas and transforming it into the blazing colours that characterise his painting. For Katz, drawing is at the heart of his working method. Even though the cartoon is a preliminary study, part of the process of producing a painting, he sees it as a finished, self-contained document with an artistic message. The volume includes about 50 works on paper and cartoon, reproduced in large sized, high quality illustrations and some explanatory texts. Text in englischer und deutscher Sprache.

24,2 x 30,4 cm. 103 S. mit 53 farb. Abb. Biografie, Bibliografie, Abb'verz. Fester Einband. ISBN 9783902403094.

[SW: modern art hedendaags contemporain contemporary Antonia Hoerschelmann Alex Katz - Kartons & Gemälde 9783902403094 Albertina]

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Katz, Alex und Ann Beattie: Alex Katz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. ISBN: 9780810912120
Umschlag leicht berieben und am Rücken etwas ausgeblichen, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Inhalt: List of Plates -- Editor's Note -- A Reading of Alex Katz -- Ada -- Narratives -- Inanimate Portraits -- Couples. - Klappentext: In this, her first book-length work of non-fiction, famed short story writer and novelist Ann Beattie steps out of the world of fiction and into the world of art as she examines the work of the artist Alex Katz. In an effort to bring together artists in two different mediums who share similar sensibilities and techniques, this book reveals the work of Alex Katz in a provocative and original new light. Centering her text around a personal selection of 26 paintings-many of which are from the 1980s and have never been reproduced in book form before-Beattie draws an engaging, personalized portrait of the artist and his work. Alex Katz, she writes, "is happier talking about the impetus that directs his sensibility...than he is critiquing what emotions his subjects display in the paintings. Yet," she continues, "after some examination, the real importance becomes apparent: that whether or not the painter intends a psychological dimension it is there, and that he is providing us with an opportunity to study human nature." So begins the acclaimed fiction writer's essay on the work of Katz, an essay that displays the same extraordinary powers of observation and insight that have distinguished her fiction writing since she first came to prominence in the early 1970s. For this work Beattie interviewed not only the artist but some of the subjects of his paintings: among them Jennifer Bartlett, Rackstraw Downes, John Loring, and Katz's most frequently painted subject, his wife, Ada. Each of them reveals to Beattie what it is like to pose for Katz, while Beattie goes one step further and reveals to us the sometimes startling stories they end up enacting on canvas. ISBN 9780810912120, ISBN: 0810912120

91 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

[SW: Individual artists, ARCHITECTURE / General, Art / History / General, Art, General, Individual Artists / Art Monographs]

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Parkett. No. 21. 1989. Kunstzeitschrift. Art Magazine. Collaboration Alex Katz. Insert: William Wegman. - Zürich: Parkett Vlg., 1989.
Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. - ISSN 0256-0917. - LISA LIEBMANN THE CASE OF ROBERT GOBER -- DER FALL ROBERT GOBER -- COLLABORATION ALEX KATZ -- JOHN RUSSELAN OLYMPIC HIGH-FLYER -- EIN OLYMPISCHER DRAUFGÄNGER -- BROOKS ADAMS ALEX KATZ 'S "KOOL" PORTRAITS -- DAVID RIMANELLI THE SIMPLE TRUTH OF EVERYDAY PAINTING -- DIE REINEN WAHRHEITEN DER "ALLTAGSMALEREI" -- ALEX KATZ /A DISCUSSION -- FRANCESCO CLEMENTE EIN GESPRÄCH -- MICHAEL KRÜGER VIER JAHRESZEITEN AUF JAPANPAPIER -- FOUR SEASONS ON JAPANESE PAPER -- RICHARD FLOOD GO FETCH THE NEW YORKER -- GEH, HOL DEN NEW YORKER -- PATRICK FREYADA, DIE BILD-FRAU VON KATZ -- ADA, KATZ'PICTURE WOMAN -- CARL STIGLIANONIGHT II 1987 -- BICE CURIGEREIN PINSELSTRICH IST DIE KÜNSTLICHSTE -- SACHE DER WELT -- A BRUSHSTROKE IS THE MOST ARTIFICIAL THING IN THE WORLD -- GLENN O'BRIEN COW, COW, COW -- KUH, KUH, KUH -- JACQUELINE BURCKHARDTHOMMAGE AN GIULIO ROMANO -- HOMAGE TO GIULIO ROMANO -- INSERTWILLIAM WEGMAN -- LES INFOS DU PARADIS MIKEKELLEY: SURVIVAL RESEARCH -- LABORATORIES -- CUMULUS FROM AMERICADAVIDDEITCHER -- CUMULUS AUS EUROPA FRIEDEMANNMALSCH -- BALKON RENE RICARD -- HEFTRÜCKEN / SPINE NO 19-22: ROSS BLECKNER.

151 S., sehr zahlr. Abb., Anzeigen. Broschiert.

[SW: Kunstzeitschrift, Parkett, Contemporary Art, Gegenwartskunst, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Alex Katz, William Wegman]

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Katz, Alex (1927-) . Richard Marshall, Ed. ; with An Essay by Robert Rosenblum: Alex Katz - ["Exhibition 'alex Katz' At the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 13-June 15, 1986"--P. 156] New York, N. Y. : Whitney Museum Of American Art, In Association With Rizzoli International Publications 1986 ISBN: 874270480
Alex Katz is one of the most important American artists to have emerged since 1950. Throughout his career, which now spans more than thirty years, Katz has produced a remarkable and impressive body of work that constitutes a unique aspect of modern realism. This book is published on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and contains over ninety color reproductions of paintings, cutouts, and collages that survey the artist's career since 1951. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new

1st Edition Description: 157 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Ports. ; 33 cm. Bibliography: p. 147-149. Subjects: Katz, Alex, 1927- --Exhibitions 157 pages

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