Description
This retrospective study is the definitive statement of the achievement of Alex Katz (b. 1927), a major contemporary artist with a large and devoted following. The author, the distinguished art critic and historian Irving Sandler, has known Katz almost as long as the artist has been painting, and the two worked together to select the paintings, prints, and cutouts that are so superbly reproduced here. Katz began his career alongside the Abstract Expressionists but forged his own, very different direction. For the last four decades he has been striving diligently and brilliantly to depict the human figure, the figure in nature, and the landscapes of the places in which he has lived. Katz's powerful but accessible paintings have made him a major force in contemporary art and won him great critical acclaim. His stunning, sometimes huge works are found in almost every leading museum in the United States and abroad.
