Chuck Close: Work

A critical survey of the full range of artist Chuck Close's career in which he has employed an array of mediums ranging from the conventional - oils, acrylic paint, and pastel - to the exotic, including paper pulp collages and huge images accumulated from tens of thousands of fingerprints, as well as innovative forays into photograhy, in a relentless pursuit of portraiture. Christopher Finch offers engaging, in-depth analysis - supported by four decades of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation with the artist - from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and 1970s, to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. Addenda. With more than 300 illustrations. 336p.