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Chuck Close : life / Christopher Finch.
- Title
- Chuck Close : life / Christopher Finch.
- Author
- Finch, Christopher
- Publication
- Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | N6537.C54 F558 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 350 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
- Summary
- Tells the story of the life and works of American artist, Chuck Close, describing his various approaches to portraiture and his determination to overcome near paralysis from an anterior spinal stroke.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical reference (p. 343-344) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Born on the fifth of July -- Learning to be unafraid -- Life lessons -- Everett -- Breaking away -- Bicoastal adventures -- New Haven -- Transitions -- Rags and rats -- Grand unions -- Heads -- Recognition -- Downtown domesticity -- The grid emerges -- Widening horizons -- Family matters -- Leaving SoHo -- Prismatic grids -- The event -- Alex II -- Regeneration -- Head-on -- Process and pragmatism -- From the oval office to the Kremlin -- Inspiration is for amateurs -- Portraits of the artist -- You start off with a blank canvas.
- ISBN
- 9783791336770 (hc.)
- 3791336770 (hc.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009943596
- OCLC
- 475438241
- SCSB-10351152
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library