Chuck Close: Life (Christopher Finch)

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Chuck Close: Life

Christopher Finch

Published by Prestel, 2010

ISBN 10: 3791336770 ISBN 13: 9783791336770 

The artist's oral autobiography. With accompanying art and photographs. 

The production values are sublime, featuring brilliant reproductions of Chuck Close's work, vintage photographs, and contemporary images of the wheelchair-bound artist at work. Edited by Christopher Finch in close collaboration with the artist, whose voice rises eloquently on every page. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ. Presents "Chuck Close: Life". The companion volume to "Chuck Close: Work" (2010), work and life being inseparable, not just complementary for every true artist, not just Close. He is also Modern art's Multiple-Disability Incarnate. His success is not just remarkable, it is awe-inspiring even though he tells it in the most unsentimental, matter-of-fact manner. Suffering from dyslexia, neuromuscular problems, and prosopagnosia, a perceptual disorder that interferes with his ability to recognize faces, Close describes his art as one of "maximizing skills and minimizing deficits". "A richly textured narrative covering every phase of Close's evolution, following him to Yale as a hippie abstract painter to 1960's Downtown New York, where Close and his wife, Leslie, were art pioneers. Close realized that the human face was his great subject, and that his approach would involve brutal detail and monumental scale" (Donna Seaman). The most touching parts are where Chuck Close, a cool persona to his core, talks about how art saved his life, by goading him to persevere, overcome, and ultimately prevail where lesser souls would have succumbed to self-pity, self-neglect, and self-destruction.

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