Chuck Close prints : process and collaboration / Terrie Sultan ; with an essay by Richard Shiff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sultan, Terrie, 1952-

Contributor:

Close, Chuck, 1940-2021.

Shiff, Richard.

Blaffer Gallery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Close, Chuck, 1940-2021--Exhibitions.

Close, Chuck.

Close, Chuck, 1940-2021.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ; Houston : Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, [2003]

Summary:

Chuck Close -- a man who describes himself as "an artist looking for trouble" -- has for three decades consistently but variously challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. Published to accompany a retrospective of his prints opening at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, and traveling to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, this is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints. Featuring exquisite reproductions of the prints together with essays on Close's career and in-depth interviews with the artist and his master printmakers, the volume blends words and images to give readers unique insight into the creative process. The text high-lights the intensely collaborative nature of Close's projects and looks into the challenges posed by the unprecedented huge scale he prefers. Close may labor on a single print for as long as two years, working out aesthetic problems that might involve the retrieval of a centuries-old European method one day and the creation of an entirely new technique (such as applying sunscreen to block light) the next. "Prints have moved me in my unique work more than anything else has," Close says. "Prints change the way I think about things." From the artist's ambitious first mezzotint to his recent pulp-paper multiples, this book chronicles the genius of Chuck Close in the medium in which he has done his most exciting work. Taken together, these prints constitute a remarkable self-portrait of the creative drive, vision, and intellect of one of America's most important living artists.

Contents:

Introduction: Chuck Close Prints / Terrie Sultan 9

Through a Slow Medium / Richard Shiff 19

Process and Collaboration: Interviews with Chuck Close and the Printers 45

Mezzotint / Kathan Brown 47

Pulp-Paper Multiples / Ruth Lingen, Mae Shore, Paul Wong 59

Spitbite Etching / Bill Hall, Julia D'Amario 77

Reduction Linoleum / Ruth Lingen, Robert Blanton, Thomas Little 85

Silk Screen / Robert Blanton, Thomas Little 97

Japanese-Style Woodcut / Yasu Shibata 111

European-Style Woodcut / Karl Hecksher 121

Scribble Etching / Bill Hall, Julia D'Amario 129

Chronology: A Career in Printmaking / Alexandra Irvine 141.

Notes:

Exhibition at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Sept. 13-Nov. 23, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691115761

069111577X

OCLC:

51936841

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