{"product_id":"alex-katz-9780847866182","title":"Alex Katz","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development of Katz's singular American style.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e2020 GOLD WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN ART\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlex Katz has found his audience. It's not the first time. Over seven decades, the artist has developed his vision with determination as the tides of avant-garde and academic fashion ebbed and flowed. His first audience was other painters (including de Kooning and Philip Guston), and today, still, he is perhaps best understood by other artists: those who appreciate how difficult it is to make something so simple, so well. Working in a representational style while his classmates celebrated Abstract Expressionism, eschewing slick surfaces for a pared-down view while his peers went glossy with Pop, Katz cleaved to one vision, a few locations, and subjects. Katz's endurance and commitment to developing an original American style is explored in depth, from his boyhood influences to an artistic circle that included John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Lois Dodd, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Fairfield Porter, Yvonne Rainer, Larry Rivers, and Paul Taylor.\u003cbr\u003eSketches, works on paper, and archival material selected by the artist's son, the poet Vincent Katz, give a fuller picture of the painter and his world. The more than 250 paintings--reproduced at an unprecedented scale--will be the most comprehensive collection available in a single publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarter Ratcliff\u003c\/b\u003e is an American art critic, writer, and poet. His books on art include John Singer Sargent, Robert Longo, \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAndy Warhol: Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eVincent Katz\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525416325394,"sku":"9780847866182","price":115.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_799d39aa-1578-474c-8904-56c4dd836718.jpg?v=1731217909","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alex-katz-9780847866182","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}