A definitive monograph of more than 300 images by artist Alex Katz whose trademarks include brightly colored and highly stylized flattened forms, simplification of detail, and alla prima paint application this book charts the development of Katz s hallmark aesthetic that anticipated the emergence of Pop Art. Vanity Fair, 11 of Fall's Best Coffee-Table Books
'Nothing to me is more interesting than being in the studio. I don t have any conflicts, except with myself,' says Alex Katz over the phone from his studio in Manhattan. New ideas and new things just keep on popping up. The inimitable 93-year-old artist, who has spent the past few months in quarantine working from the countryside in Pennsylvania, has just released a handsome new book with Rizzoli. Edited by his son Vincent, the striking tome features a comprehensive essay by the art critic and Katz specialist Carter Ratcliff and around 300 full-page images of both well known and unpublished paintings alongside photographs, sketches and other ephemera." GALERIE MAGAZINE.COM
"Having become quite familiar myself with the wide variety of previous perspectives published about the artist s work . . . I was happily surprised to be taken through the artist s life via portraiture in such a rigorously perceptive way as Ratcliff fashions here." TOM MCGLYNN, BROOKLYN RAIL
Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer, and poet. His books on art include John Singer Sargent, Robert Longo, The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, and Andy Warhol: Portraits. Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry.
