{"product_id":"chuck-close-selfportraits-19672005-9780935640809","title":"Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005\u003c\/strong\u003e by Engberg, Siri. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780935640809.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA celebrated, popular and influential figure in American art, Chuck Close has focused exclusively, and with great innovation, on the genre of portraiture. This exhibition, co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, explores the artists work in self-portraiture over four decades and across a variety of media, including painting, drawing, photography, collage, and printmaking. The first comprehensive museum survey of Closes self-portraits, the exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a fascinating glimpse of an artists self-examination and evolution over time and elucidate his unbounded, process-driven experimentation with media and techniques. Working with the seemingly narrow subject of his own face, Close has produced a richly varied trove that ranges from intimately scaled collage maquettes and fingerprint drawings to monumental gridded canvases; from the sharp definition of certain photographic techniques to the ghostly blurs of daguerreotypes and holograms; from the tactile complexity of paper pulp editions to the smooth, mechanical surfaces of Polaroids and digital ink-jet prints; from the subtle tonalities of gray-scale paintings and drawings to the exuberance of an 111-color screenprint. When Close unleashes his imagination on his own visage, this familiar figure is at his most revealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brand: Walker Art Center\/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44960343949365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0935640800","price":30.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780935640809_45185e48-43d0-45ba-925e-0649e335404b.jpg?v=1778708449","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chuck-close-selfportraits-19672005-9780935640809","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}