Alex Katz

Revised & expanded edition
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7148-6740-3
Verlag: Phaidon Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 258 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 2453 g

Reihe: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series

Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting, a key New York-based artist since the early 1960s. Katz is best known for his distinct portraits of sophisticated, irresistible women, masterfully painted using precise, broad areas of colour.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ratcliff, Carter

Blazwick, Iwona

Schwabsky, Barry

Über Autor(innen)

Carter Ratcliff is a poet and an art critic. His books include (1983), a collection of poems with illustrations by Alex Katz; (1983); (1998); and (2000). He was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, College Art Association, in 1987, and is a leading world expert on Alex Katz. 

Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Formerly Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2004 he curated the 5th SITE Sante Fe Biennial in New Mexico. He was a contributing author to Phaidon's (2003), (2001) and (2000) and has written regularly for magazines such as , , and .

Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, London. As Head of Exhibitions and Display at Tate Modern, London (1997-2001), as Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1986-92), and as an independent curator, she has realized many international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and has published texts on numerous living artists. From 1993-97 she was Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press.