Table of Contents

Chuck Close and the American School 5 New York, SoHo, Pop Art 8 Big Self Portrait 14 Close and Photography 16 Durer Self Portrait 17 Close and Cindy Sherman 21

About the Author

The Author: Edward Lucie-Smith has published more than more than sixty books about art, chiefly but not exclusively about contemporary work. A number of his art books, among them Movements in Art since 1945 , Visual Arts of the 20th Century, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Art Today are used as standard texts throughout the world. Movements in Art since 1945, first published in 1969, has been continuously in print since that date. He has been curator of a number of international exhibitions and is curator of the Bermondsey Project Space in London SE1