Alex Katz In Maine [Hardcover]

Sanford Schwartz (Author), Alex Katz (Author)

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Publication Date: July 15, 2005

Alex Katz is one of the most important painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he still continues to influence generations of artists with his iconic figurative work. Best-known for his emotionally ambivalent and psychologically complex portraits of cosmopolitan friends and colleagues from the New York art world, he is also revered for his bold, transcendent landscape paintings and his coolly intimate portraits of friends and family--oftentimes painted in Maine, where Katz has habitually summered for the past half-century. Many of Katz's most poetic, melancholy, and slyly humorous works have been made in or about the state of Maine, and they are reproduced here in conjunction with the Farnsworth Museum of Art's Summer, 2005 exhibition. The Maine paintings capture friends and family relaxing in off moments, seasonal changes in light, and other momentary excerpts from reality.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Charta/Farnsworth Art Museum (July 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8881585081
• ISBN-13: 978-8881585083
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 11.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book on a Great Artist., September 16, 2010

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Alex Katz is one of the great artists of our time and whose stature will forever endure. This is a very nice book on the artworks he's done in Maine over the past 50 summers. His responses to moments in time, inspired by the light and space of this special place, are wonderfully expressed in countless drawings, prints, cutouts, and paintings. Many of these artworks can seen in person at the Farnsworth Museum and Colby College - both located in Maine. To see Alex's Maine artworks in Maine brings another level of understanding to the drawings and paintings contained in this book.