Alex Katz: Recent Paintings

Artist: Alex Katz  Title: Alex Katz: Recent Paintings  Year: 1996 ISBN: 978-0897971157  Publisher: Marlborough Gallery, Inc. Book Format: Softcover, 9 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches, 26 pages, 16 color plates   The internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Over a thirty-year period he has produced an outstanding oeuvre including large-scale portrait paintings, woodcuts, etchings and linocuts. Using smooth, glossy planes of color to create representational images, Katz's work has immediate connections to both reality and the artificial. Katz elevates elements of uneventful daily life by transferring them to the canvas or the etching plate, but he makes no statements or judgments concerning his subjects. He creates iconographic images by generalizing the features of a sitter or a landscape, making them familiar to all viewers. By removing emotional content, the focus of the work becomes the formal properties of light, scale, and color. His u