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Alex Katz: Dance and Theater THE ART Alex OFKatzPERFORMANCE Dance and Theater
ALEX KATZ
Paintings, Costumes, and Design
DIANA TUITE Rizzoli Electa ESSAYS BY CHARLES L. REINHART, DAVID A Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. SALLE, AND JENNIFER TIPTON 300 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 www.rizzoliusa.com Alex Katz’s long-standing fascination with dance ISBN: 9780847871469 and collaborations with renowned writers and $55 Can: $75, UK: [UK Price] choreographers has yielded some of his most HC, 8 x 10 inches 256 pages complex compositions. 200 illustrations Rights: World
Since Alex Katz first painted Paul Taylor in 1959, he For serial rights, images to accompany your coverage, or any other publicity information about this title please contact: has invited dancers to model for him. Dance, according Pam Sommers, Executive Director of Publicity, (212) 387-3465, psommers@rizzoliusa.com to the artist, T.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 theater and dance aesthetics.
DANCE & THEATER
Katz partnered with dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor on 15 productions for which Katz innovated with flat lighting, humorous obstacles, and framing mechanisms. His involvement with 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 Newly commissioned essays, unpublished materials, and major paintings provide an overview of Katz’s working relationships with individual choreographers and shed new light on avant-garde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 1980s. Diana Tuite is the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. Charles L. Reinhart served as the longtime director of the American Dance Festival. David Salle is an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer. Jennifer Tipton is an award-winning American lighting designer.
ART/PERFORMING ARTS 256 pages, 8 x 10” 250 color photographs HC: 978-0-8478-7146-9 $55.00 Can: $75.00 UK: £39.95 May 17, 2022 Rights: World R IZZOLI ELECTA IN ASSOCIATION WITH COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, WATERVILLE, ME
Exhibition Schedule: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine: August 16, 2022–February 19, 2023
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