Alex Katz: Gathering

阿历克斯·卡茨：聚会

✦产品信息——

出版社 ‏ : ‎ Guggenheim Museum (2022年 12月 13日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 383页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0892075600

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0892075607

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 2.02 Kilograms

尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 24 x 3.5 x 29.5 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

✦内容简介——

亚历克斯·卡茨的演变:近80年来，他在肖像画和风景画、纸上作品和雕塑方面的不断创新

经过数十年的紧张创作，亚历克斯·卡茨(Alex Katz)试图在绘画中捕捉一种“意识”的状态。无论是唤起朋友之间的一瞥交流，还是穿过树木的一束光，他的目标是创造一个“快速流逝的事物”的记录，将日常生活的流动压缩成一个压缩的光学感知爆发。《亚历克斯·卡茨:聚会》在卡茨30多年来首次在美国举办职业回顾展之际出版，为卡茨的艺术项目提供了一个明确的描述，展示了其显著的连贯性和不断的演变。这本书插图丰富，展示了这位艺术家跨媒介和形式的全部作品，从20世纪40年代末纽约地铁乘客的亲密素描到他近期主要创作的令人兴奋的、规模巨大的风景画。

艺术家、作家和艺术史学家的文章提供了艺术家实践的新鲜的概述，同时更集中地考虑了他的艺术的特定方面，包括他的花卉画、拼贴画、版画、独立的“剪纸”和与保罗泰勒舞蹈团合作的布景设计。这本书还收录了历史评论、散文和诗歌，对这位艺术家的全部作品进行了迟来的重新评估。

亚历克斯·卡茨(生于1927年)是美国具有代表性和多产的艺术家之一。自1951年以来，他的作品已成为250多个个展和500多个群展的主题，并在全球100多个公共收藏中找到。

The evolution of Alex Katz: nearly 80 years of restless innovation in portraiture and landscape across painting, works on paper and sculpture

Across decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz has sought to capture a state of “absolute awareness” in paint. Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of “quick things passing,” compressing the flux of everyday life into a condensed burst of optical perception. Published on the occasion of the artist’s first US career retrospective in more than 30 years, Alex Katz: Gathering offers a definitive account of Katz’s artistic project, demonstrating both its marked coherence and restless evolution. Generously illustrated, the book features the full breadth of the artist’s work across mediums and formats, from intimate sketches of riders on the New York City subway in the late 1940s to the rapturous, monumentally scaled landscapes that have dominated his recent production.

Essays by artists, writers and art historians offer fresh, authoritative overviews of the artist’s practice alongside more focused considerations of specific facets of his art, including his flower paintings, collages, prints, freestanding “cutouts” and set design collaborations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. A sourcebook of historical reviews, essays and poems rounds out the volume, which offers an overdue reassessment of the artist’s oeuvre.

Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide.