Chuck Close Prints

by Sultan, Terrie

• ISBN13: 9780691115771
• ISBN10: 069111577X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-25
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

For three decades, Chuck Close has challenged the accepted boundaries of the printmaking tradition. This book, published to accompany a retrospective of his prints organized by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, and traveling to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and several additional museums around the country, is the first comprehensive survey of Close's revolutionary prints.

Author Biography

Terrie Sultan is Director and Chief Curator of Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at the University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Introduction: Chuck Close Prints	p. 9
Through a Slow Medium	p. 19
Process and Collaboration: Interviews with Chuck Close and the Printers	p. 45
Mezzotint	p. 47
Pulp-Paper Multiples	p. 59
Spitbite Etching	p. 77
Reduction Linoleum	p. 85
Silk Screen	p. 97
Japanese-Style Woodcut	p. 111
European-Style Woodcut	p. 121
Scribble Etching	p. 129
Chronology: A Career in Printmaking	p. 141
Glossary	p. 148
Acknowledgments	p. 152
Exhibition Tour	p. 154
Index	p. 155
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