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Laura Owens»rank: 1264741by: Rod Mengham, Gloria Sutton, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Peyton, Mary Heilmann, Scott Rothkopf, Laura Owens
: :Laura Owens once said of more doctrinaire painters that 'the weight of art history is what gets you that crusty, stodgy feeling, when you look at a work of art and you feel that the person hasn't stepped outside, hasn't looked in other wings of the Met, hasn't gone to a natural history museum.' There is no danger of that in her own good-natured and elegant works, which seem to emulate Rousseau, Grandma Moses and the aesthetics of the 1960s and of vintage decorative arts at once. Robots in the garden, lions, hunters, romance and war are some of the subjects parading through, under passing influences as wide ranging as Dada performance, ... |
Visionaire No. 50: Artists Toys (Visionaire)»rank: 108077by: Alex Katz, Tony Oursler, Rob Pruitt
: :After the run-away success of Visionaire 44: Toys and Visionaire 45: More Toys, both of with featured a set of 10 adorable yet provocative adult playthings created in collaboration with the cult toy manufacturer, Kid Robot, by an assortment of today's hottest fashion designers, the editors of Visionaire are pleased to present the 2006 edition, Artist Toys. Unlike the previous sets, which were created from the same toy prototype, the shape of this new original toy multiple is brand new. The artists who have been selected to customize the new prototype include painter Alex Katz; sculptors Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Tony Oursler; conceptual artist Rob Pruitt; graphic designer Chip Kidd; ... |
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2009 Alex Katz Wall Calendar (Grid Calendar)»rank: 174355by: Alex Katz
: :After the run-away success of Visionaire 44: Toys and Visionaire 45: More Toys, both of with featured a set of 10 adorable yet provocative adult playthings created in collaboration with the cult toy manufacturer, Kid Robot, by an assortment of today's hottest fashion designers, the editors of Visionaire are pleased to present the 2006 edition, Artist Toys. Unlike the previous sets, which were created from the same toy prototype, the shape of this new original toy multiple is brand new. The artists who have been selected to customize the new prototype include painter Alex Katz; sculptors Tim Noble & Sue Webster and Tony Oursler; conceptual artist Rob Pruitt; graphic designer Chip Kidd; ... |
Alex Katz In Maine»rank: 742451by: Sanford Schwartz, Alex Katz
: :Alex Katz is one of the most important painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he still continues to influence generations of artists with his iconic figurative work. Best-known for his emotionally ambivalent and psychologically complex portraits of cosmopolitan friends and colleagues from the New York art world, he is also revered for his bold, transcendent landscape paintings and his coolly intimate portraits of friends and family--oftentimes painted in Maine, where Katz has habitually summered for the past half-century. Many of Katz's most poetic, melancholy, and slyly humorous works have been made in or about the state of Maine, ... |
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Selected Declarations of Dependence (Sun & Moon Classics)»rank: 756925by: Harry Mathews
: :Alex Katz is one of the most important painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he still continues to influence generations of artists with his iconic figurative work. Best-known for his emotionally ambivalent and psychologically complex portraits of cosmopolitan friends and colleagues from the New York art world, he is also revered for his bold, transcendent landscape paintings and his coolly intimate portraits of friends and family--oftentimes painted in Maine, where Katz has habitually summered for the past half-century. Many of Katz's most poetic, melancholy, and slyly humorous works have been made in or about the state of Maine, ... |
Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making»rank: 439835from: Windsor Press
: :Alex Katz is one of the most important painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he still continues to influence generations of artists with his iconic figurative work. Best-known for his emotionally ambivalent and psychologically complex portraits of cosmopolitan friends and colleagues from the New York art world, he is also revered for his bold, transcendent landscape paintings and his coolly intimate portraits of friends and family--oftentimes painted in Maine, where Katz has habitually summered for the past half-century. Many of Katz's most poetic, melancholy, and slyly humorous works have been made in or about the state of Maine, ... |
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Staphylococcus Aureus : Infection and Disease (Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis) (Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis)»rank: 944393by: Alexander J. Howie, David B. Young, Robert Newland, Weisman, Clemente, Alex Kolevzon, Springhouse, Stedmans, Gerald goldstein, Sue R. Beers, Lynda J. Katz, Herman Friedman, Mauro Bendinelli, Daphne Simeon, Anita Krishna Das
: :Staphylococcus aureus is now acknowledged as being the most important bacterial pathogen of humans. It usually produces localized disease but can be rapidly invasive, spreading through the tissues, invading bone, and seeding the bloodstream to produce a fulminant picture of septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and rapid death. Moreover, most strains of staph infections are becoming resistant to most antibiotics, thus posing a significant problem for hospitals and health care facilities. This book, a volume in the Infectious Agents and Pathogenesis series, presents chapters by the major researchers in the field. |
Alex Katz: New York»rank: 1002791by: Juan Bonet, Alex Katz
: :New York brings together painter Alex Katz's most striking images of his hometown and the dear friends with which he made it his own. Coming of age during the triumph of the New York School of painting, Katz synthesized its influences with wide-ranging interests shared by many of the New York School poets. Of the more than 40 paintings and aquatints gathered here, many depict that distinguished circle, as well as the iconic skyline where they changed the world. Katz is best known as a painter of people, and the wide cross-section of portraits here demonstrates the variety he brings to the genre, along with dramatic variations in scale, abrupt cropping and ... |
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Psychiatry History Taking»rank: 776523by: Alex, M.D. Kolevzon, Craig L., M.D. Katz
: :This essential reference teaches the art of psychiatric history taking. Each chapter covers a different psychiatric disorder and describes how to evaluates each patient. It outlines current management of all psychiatric disorders. 'Psychiatric History Taking' is the most up-to-date reference on psychiatric evaluation available. |
Alex Katz: The Sixties»rank: 938275by: Barry Schwabsky, Alex Katz
: :Alex Katz: The Sixties offers readers a selection of works by the pioneering painter who redefined portraiture and landscape in the 1960s. Bridging Pop and Minimalist sensibilities, these prints, paintings and other works are quintessential examples of style as content: Katz intimates the familiar rather than describe it, and prods the viewer's perception past preconceived ideas. Katz's work catalyzes an immediate response, both pictorially and emotionally, to the human condition. His work is included in collections at The Museum of Modern Art, the Hirschhorn, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Saatchi Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo. |