Alex Katz

Rizzoli International Publications

Alex KatzAuthor(s): Carter Ratcliff, Vincent Katz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications, United States\nImprint: Rizzoli International Publications\nISBN-13: 9780847866182, 978-0847866182\nSynopsis\nAlex Katz has found his audience. It s not the first time. Over seven decades, the artist has developed his vision with determination as the tides of avant-garde and academic fashion ebbed and flowed. His first audience was other painters (including de Kooning and Philip Guston), and today, still, he is perhaps best understood by other artists: those who appreciate how difficult it is to make something so simple, so well. Working in a representational style while his classmates celebrated Abstract Expressionism, eschewing slick surfaces for a pared-down view while his peers went glossy with Pop, Katz cleaved to one vision, a few locations, and subjects. Katz s endurance and commitment to developing an original American style is explored in depth, from his boyhoo.