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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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Book/TextRequest in advance N6537.C54 F558 2010Off-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
  • Close, Chuck
  • Close, Chuck, 1940-2021
  • Close, Chuck, 1940-2021 > Health
  • Portretkunst
  • Portrait painters > United States > Biography
  • Schilderijen
  • Verenigde Staten
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