Chuck close biography book

Finch chronicles Close's childhood battles Author Christopher Finch has known Close since the late s when the artist was creating his first masterpieces in an unheated SoHo loft. Finch chronicles Close's childhood battles with illness and dyslexia and his rise to the pinnacle of the art world.

Illustrates the life and struggles

Close, who is wheelchair-bound and paints with a brush strapped to his arm, discusses the severe dyslexia and face blindness he has struggled with since childhood, as well as a collapsed spinal artery that left him nearly paralyzed at the age of An engaging feature of the book is a mix-and-match Chuck Close self-portrait section.

Conceived as a companion Illustrates the life and struggles of American artist Chuck Close, who overcame learning disabilities as a child and fought paralysis as an adult to become a celebrated portrait painter with works appearing at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Charles Thomas Close (July Chuck Close is one of the most acclaimed American artists to emerge since Andy Warhol. His larger-than-life portraits look out from the walls of museums and galleries around the globe.

Chuck Close was born in Charles Thomas Close (July 5, – August 19, ) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera.

Chuck Close: Life, however, Christopher Finch was born in Guernsey in the British Channel Islands, and now lives in Los Angeles. He is an artist and a photographer who has had one person shows in New York and California, and he is the author of almost thirty non-fiction books including the best sellers Rainbow: the Stormy Life of Judy Garland, The Art of Walt Disney, Jim Henson: the Works, and Norman Rockwell's America.

Christopher Finch offers an intimate, Chuck Close, American artist noted for his highly inventive techniques used to paint large-scale portraits. By reproducing and magnifying photos, Close highlighted the mechanical shortcomings of photography and the flaws of the human face. Learn more about his life and work.

Chuck Close is known for British art critic Christopher Finch wrote a biography, Chuck Close: Life, which was published in , a sequel of sorts to Finch's book, Chuck Close: Work, a career-spanning monograph. Another documentary film was made on Close in , titled Chuck Close: Eye To Eye: ART/new york No. 48, by his classmate at Yale University Paul Tschinkel.