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Ratcliff, Carter Goodrich was born on August 20, 1941 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Francis Kenneth and Marian Elizabeth (Carter) Ratcliff.
(One of the most important exponents of figurative realism...)
One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy, awash in an always flawless beauty which lends them a coolness verging on lifeless. Without ever cutting too deep, Katz's focus remains on the brilliance of surface--both his paintings' and his subjects'. Since the beginning of the 60s, Katz has been quoting the oversized formats of large-scale Pepsi and Lucky Strike advertisements and the dramatic compositions of film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Simultaneously, if somewhat less famously, he started to "cut out" his figure paintings in order to carry the surface quality of his depictions to the extreme--first in oil on wood, later in aluminum. The exquisite book at hand presents, for the first time, a broad selection of Katz's silhouette sculptures.
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( Ranging from earthworks to conceptual art, this illumin...)
Ranging from earthworks to conceptual art, this illuminating read offers an integrated view of all the significant artistic developments of one crucial decade, the extraordinary explosion that occurred between 1965 and 1975. The author, a leading art critic, focuses a new lens on this radical movement, showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art. No other account has documented in such detail the scope and impact of this artistic revolution, which the author argues spanned all mediums and pushed every aesthetic possibility of Minimalism to an extreme.
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(Maine/New York surveys three decades of paintings by Alex...)
Maine/New York surveys three decades of paintings by Alex Katz (born 1927). A quintessential New York artist, Katz is also a part-time resident of rural Maine, and the subject matter of his paintings accordingly shifts from landscape to cityscape, from rural vignette to Manhattan interior. In this volume, published for an exhibition at Colby College Museum of Art--where the largest public collection of Katz's resides--the pleasant haze of city afternoons is juxtaposed with the flickering greens of a rural path; the buzz of a fashionable social occasion with the dusk as it descends on a pond in the Maine woods. Along the way, we encounter the family members and friends who populate Katz's paintings, cast in his distinctive treatments of light and atmosphere.
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( Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful...)
Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful reappraisal by prominent art critic Carter Ratcliff, who shows us the surprising breadth of the artist's work. Never before has a book so thoroughly represented that variety: 110 lavish color plates and more than 200 halftones convey the brilliance of his portraits, the exuberance of his watercolors, the stately pomp of his murals. It is perhaps the watercolors that are most exciting to contemporary eyes — bold, spontaneous, and vividly hued, they have a breathtaking immediacy. Born in Florence in 1856 to American parents, Sargent spent a nomadic childhood before going to Paris to study painting. He learned quickly and by the 1880s had begun the steady climb to fame that ultimately placed him at the center of his world, with a circle of friends and rivals that included Henry James, Claude Monet, and James McNeill Whistler. When Sargent died in 1925, a childhood companion wrote in her memorial that "the summing up of a would-be biographer must, I think be: He painted." It is the strikingly beautiful results of that lifelong devotion to his art that glow throughout the pages of this incomparable book.
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(Great book on the art of Contemporary American artist Rob...)
Great book on the art of Contemporary American artist Robert Longo. 65 mostly color illustrations / photographs of works by Longon - paintings drawings, sculpture, mixed media, installations. Figures, self-portraits, abstract works. Softcover. 100 pages. Measures 8 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches. Interesting book, nicely illustrated.
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Ratcliff, Carter Goodrich was born on August 20, 1941 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Francis Kenneth and Marian Elizabeth (Carter) Ratcliff.
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1963.
Director poetry workshop, St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York City, 1969-1970;
editorial associate, Artnews, New York City, 1969-1972;
advisory editor, Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, 1970-1975;
instructor modern and contemporary art and art theory, The School of Visual Arts, New York City, 1972-1983;
instructor modern and contemporary art, Philadelphia College of Art, 1973;
instructor art history, New York University School of Continuing Education, 1973-1975;
contributing editor, Saturday Review, New York City, 1980-1982;
contributing editor, Art in America, New York City, since 1976;
member editorial advising committee, Sculpture, Washington, since 1992. Via. professor post-war American art State University of New York, Purchase, 1983-1984. Visiting professor modern and contemporary art and art theory Pratt Institute, Bkyn., 1984-1985.
Visiting professor art criticism and theory Hunter College, CUNY, 1985-1986, 95-96.
( Ranging from earthworks to conceptual art, this illumin...)
( Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful...)
(One of the most important exponents of figurative realism...)
(Maine/New York surveys three decades of paintings by Alex...)
(Great book on the art of Contemporary American artist Rob...)
(Exhibition catalogue illustrated in color.)
(rare volume in beautiful condition)
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Married Phyllis Derfner, January 28, 1976.