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by: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Alex Katz
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780935875201
ISBN: 0935875204
Label: Peter Blum Edition
Manufacturer: Peter Blum Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 470
Publication Date: 2003-09
Publisher: Peter Blum Edition
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Sales Rank: 2149742
Studio: Peter Blum Edition
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
'In the more than 500 working drawings by Alex Katz reproduced here, we are able to look over the artist's shoulder at works in their nascent state--a rare experience essential to any understanding of the artist's oeuvre. Like a sculptor's preparatory drawings, these are the sketches of a painter who is not a draftsman but a painter; they are the raw material, revealing Katz's methods of looking and recording. Contours, overlappings, movements and attitudes are put to paper ever so quickly, with observation given top priority. Subject development, composition and memory are all elements that come about afterwards, when the artist takes up the paintbrush and moves to the canvas. First Sight contains a vast array of previously unpublished sketches and drawings, printed here in facsimile, at a scale of 1:1, and spanning the entire career of the artist, from 1950 to the present. The book is a limited edition of 1000 copies.'
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