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Karma Books, New York/Lococo Fine Art Publisher, St. Louis

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Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 100 pgs / 21 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 58   

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ISBN 9781949172546 TRADE
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Alex Katz: Beauty

Text by Carter Ratcliff, Jarrett Earnest.

Alex Katz: Beauty

Elegant monochrome glamour in Katz's new print series

This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz’s recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered in bold lineation and tightly framed, the women depicted recall the models and celebrities featured in mid-20th-century fashion imagery, underscoring Katz’s ongoing fascination with perceptions of beauty and glamour that permeate the public sphere. The portraits are bookended by a pair of meditations on beauty: Carter Ratcliff imagines a comedically philosophical dialogue between himself and beauty, and Jarrett Earnest shares 31 encounters with beauty in art and life.
Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Katz is best known for his large-scale canvases of flatly rendered figures cast against a monochrome background.


Featured images are reproduced from 'Alex Katz: Beauty'.

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David O'Neill

If Katz is an artist of distillation, this volume may be the purest shot yet.

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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/10/2021

Monochrome chic in 'Alex Katz: Beauty'

Monochrome chic in 'Alex Katz: Beauty'

Featured spreads are from Beauty, the elegant new clothbound collection of recent close-up, black-and-white print portraits by Alex Katz, newly released from Karma Books, New York and Lococo Fine Art Publisher, St. Louis. Bookending a gorgeously-printed plate section are meditations on beauty by noted art writers Jarrett Earnest and Carter Ratcliff, who conducts a dialogue with Beauty. One section reads: “And what about beauty? What does it turn the world into?
Nothing, said Beauty.
Beauty turns the world into nothing?
Let me put it another way. Beauty does not turn anything into anything else. It is not a transformative agent. It is not an agent. Which might be hard for you to understand, you’re so infatuated with your sense of agency, as you call it. But if you could get over yourself for a moment you’d see that world and beauty are synonyms.” continue to blog


ALEX KATZ MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Alex Katz: Autumn

ALEX KATZ: AUTUMN

GRAY

ISBN: 9798985761351
USD $40.00
| CAN $58 UK £ 35

Pub Date: 2/13/2024
Active | In stock


Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets

ALEX KATZ: COLLABORATIONS WITH POETS

GRAY

ISBN: 9798985761320
USD $60.00
| CAN $87 UK £ 54

Pub Date: 9/26/2023
Active | Out of stock


Alex Katz: Prints

ALEX KATZ: PRINTS

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775753944
USD $185.00
| CAN $259

Pub Date: 5/16/2023
Active | In stock


Alex Katz: Gathering

ALEX KATZ: GATHERING

Guggenheim Museum

ISBN: 9780892075607
USD $69.95
| CAN $97.95 UK £ 59.99

Pub Date: 12/13/2022
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Alex Katz: Flowers

ALEX KATZ: FLOWERS

Thaddaeus Ropac

ISBN: 9782910055851
USD $40.00
| CAN $56

Pub Date: 5/16/2023
Active | Out of stock


Alex Katz: Floating Worlds

ALEX KATZ: FLOATING WORLDS

Thaddaeus Ropac

ISBN: 9782910055837
USD $52.00
| CAN $73

Pub Date: 5/16/2023
Active | Out of stock


Alex Katz: The White Coat

ALEX KATZ: THE WHITE COAT

GRAY

ISBN: 9780996454094
USD $40.00
| CAN $55 UK £ 32

Pub Date: 3/1/2022
Active | Out of stock


Alex Katz: Beauty

ALEX KATZ: BEAUTY

Karma Books, New York/Lococo Fine Art Publisher, St. Louis

ISBN: 9781949172546
USD $40.00
| CAN $54.5 UK £ 31.5

Pub Date: 7/13/2021
Active | In stock


Alex Katz: Quick Light

ALEX KATZ: QUICK LIGHT

Koenig Books

ISBN: 9783863359683
USD $40.00
| CAN $54

Pub Date: 9/27/2016
Active | In stock


Alex Katz & Robert Creeley: Edges

ALEX KATZ & ROBERT CREELEY: EDGES

Peter Blum Edition, New York

ISBN: 9780935875171
USD $50.00
| CAN $67.5 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 7/2/1999
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