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Beauty

Title

Beauty / Alex Katz, Carter Ratcliff, Jarrett Earnest.

Author

Katz, Alex, 1927-

Publication

New York : Karma Books ; St. Louis : Lococo Fine Art Publisher, [2021]
©2021

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Description

98 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz's recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered in bold lineation and tightly framed, the women depicted recall the models and celebrities featured in mid-20th-century fashion imagery, underscoring Katz's ongoing fascination with perceptions of beauty and glamour that permeate the public sphere. The portraits are bookended by a pair of meditations on beauty: Carter Ratcliff imagines a comedically philosophical dialogue between himself and beauty, and Jarrett Earnest shares 31 encounters with beauty in art and life. Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America's most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Katz is best known for his large-scale canvases of flatly rendered figures cast against a monochrome background.

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Contents

Look, said beauty / Carter Ratcliff -- Plates / Alex Katz -- Beauties / Jarrett Earnest.

Call Number

JQF 21-1677

ISBN

1949172546
9781949172546

OCLC

1256542096

Author

Katz, Alex, 1927- artist.

Title

Beauty / Alex Katz, Carter Ratcliff, Jarrett Earnest.

Publisher

New York : Karma Books ; St. Louis : Lococo Fine Art Publisher, [2021]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Earnest, Jarrett, author.

Ratcliff, Carter, author.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1677

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