Alex Katz: Gathering
Alex Katz: Gathering
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The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculpture
Across decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz has sought to capture a state of “absolute awareness” in paint. Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of “quick things passing,” compressing the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception. Published on the occasion of the artist’s first US career retrospective in more than 30 years, Alex Katz: Gathering offers a definitive account of Katz’s artistic project, demonstrating both its marked coherence and restless evolution. Generously illustrated, the book features the full breadth of the artist’s work across mediums and formats, from intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway in the late 1940s to the rapturous, monumentally scaled landscapes that have dominated his recent production.
Essays by artists, writers and art historians offer fresh, authoritative overviews of the artist’s practice alongside more focused considerations of specific facets of his art, including his flower paintings, collages, prints, freestanding “cutouts” and set design collaborations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. A sourcebook of historical reviews, essays and poems rounds out the volume, which offers an overdue reassessment of the artist’s oeuvre.
Published to accompany Katz's first US career retrospective in over 30 years, in October 2022 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Product Details
Product Details
- Product Type: Exhibition Catalog, Hardcover
- 384 pages, with 360 illustrations
- Published in 2022
- Shipping Dimensions: 11.5 × 9.5 (29.2 × 24.1 cm)
- Shipping Weight: 4.5 lb (72.0 oz; 2041 g)
- SKU: SKU: SKU010008027
- ISBN: 9780892075607
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