Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer, and poet. His books on art include John Singer Sargent, Robert Longo, The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, and Andy Warhol: Portraits. Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry.
A definitive monograph of more than 300 images by artist Alex
Katz-whose trademarks include brightly colored and highly
stylized flattened forms, simplification of detail, and alla prima
paint application-this book charts the development of Katz's
hallmark aesthetic that anticipated the emergence of Pop Art. -
Vanity Fair, 11 of Fall's Best Coffee-Table Books
"'Nothing to me is more interesting than being in the studio. I
don't have any conflicts, except with myself,' says Alex Katz over
the phone from his studio in Manhattan. "New ideas and new things
just keep on popping up." The inimitable 93-year-old artist, who
has spent the past few months in quarantine working from the
countryside in Pennsylvania, has just released a handsome new book
with Rizzoli. Edited by his son Vincent, the striking tome features
a comprehensive essay by the art critic and Katz specialist Carter
Ratcliff and around 300 full-page images of both well known and
unpublished paintings alongside photographs, sketches and other
ephemera." -GALERIE MAGAZINE.COM
"Having become quite familiar myself with the wide variety of
previous perspectives published about the artist's work . . . I was
happily surprised to be taken through the artist's life via
portraiture in such a rigorously perceptive way as Ratcliff
fashions here." -TOM MCGLYNN, BROOKLYN RAIL
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