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Alex Katz (20th Century Masters) Hardcover – October 15, 1992by Sam Hunter (Author) Hardcover $189.95 ISBN-100847815749 ISBN-13 978-0847815746Print length 128 pages Language:EnglishPublisher: Rizzoli (Rizzoli) Publication date: October 15, 1992Dimensions:8.5 x 0.75 x 12 inches Item Wei ght:2.1 poundsAlex Katz is one of the most innovative leaders in the return to figurative realism and representation among avant-garde artists in America and Europe today. By 1960, very early in his career, Katz had already found his original and poetic solution to the dilemma of choice between an earlier, dominant abstraction and realism by giving primacy to style over subject matter. With considerable brilliance and expressive power, Katz managed to synthesize the artistic impulses of his own era with an earlier modernism, forging elements of Abstract Expressionism with the elegant forms of Manet and Matisse, artists who also explored color and planes, who compressed volume into flatness, and yet evoked convincing… Read More