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Summary:

Since Alex Katz first painted the Paul Taylor in 1959, he has invited dancers to model for him. Dance, according to the artist, belongs to the same long tradition of gestures as painting. This publication is the first to examine the many decades of Katz's work for the stage, including the ways that he introduced tenets of postwar painting into theatre and dance aesthetics. I'd never seen anything like it, Katz recalls of his first encounter with the work of dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor. The two partnered on fifteen productions for which Katz innovated with flat lighting, humorous obstacles, and framing mechanisms. His involvement with Paul Taylor led to collaborations with other companies including Yoshiko Chuma, Laura Dean, William Dunas, and Parsons. Among Katz's most celebrated sets is the ensemble of cutouts he created for Kenneth Koch's 1961 production, George Washington Crossing the Delaware. Katz heightened the absurdity of the Revolutionary War-inspired play with Pop-adjacent figures and props. This publication brings together paintings, sketches, costumes, photographs, film stills, and ephemera. Newly-commissioned essays, unpublished materials, and major paintings will provide an overview of Katz's working relationships with individual choreographers and shed new light on avant-garde collaborations in New York between the 1960s and 80s.

Table of Contents:

• Beaux gestes / Robert Storr
• Foreword / Jacqueline Terrassa
• A theatrical situation / Diana Tuite
• Productions and projects / Alex Katz with Jennifer Tipton
• Staging pictures / David Salle
• Paintings
• He makes obstacles / Charlie L. Reinhart with Laurence Hobgood.

Contributors:

Katz, Alex, 1927- , artist

Reinhart, Charles L. , contributor

Hobgood, Laurence , contributor

Salle, David, 1952- , contributor

Storr, Robert , contributor

Terrassa, Jacqueline , writer of foreword

Tipton, Jennifer , contributor

Tuite, Diana , contributor

Colby College > Museum of Art , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Katz, Alex, 1927- — Exhibitions

Paul Taylor Dance Company — Dramatic production — Design

Dance in art

Theater in art

Art, American — 20th century — Exhibitions

Katz, Alex, 1927-

Paul Taylor Dance Company

1900-1999

Art, American

Design

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alex Katz: Theater and Dance, organized by Colby College Museum of Art, August 16, 2022-February 19, 2023"--Colophon.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 26 cm

Physical Characteristics:

facsimile; illustration

Call Numbers:

ND237.K33 A4 2022

ISBNs:

9780847871469
0847871460

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022935689

OCLC Numbers:

1286313923