Alex Katz: Dance & Theater

Alex Katz: Dance and Theater

Alex Katz THE ART OF PERFORMANCE Dance and Theater Paintings, Costumes, and Design DIANA TUITE Rizzoli Electa A Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. ESSAYS BY CHARLES L. REINHART, DAVID SALLE, 300 Park Avenue SouthAND JENNIFER TIPTON New York, NY 10010 www.rizzoliusa.com Alex Katz’s long-standing fascination with dance ISBN: 9780847871469 $55 and collaborations with renowned writers and Can: $75, UK: [UK Price] HC, 8 x 10 inches choreographers has yielded some of his most 256 pages 200 illustrations complex compositions. Rights: World For serial rights, images to accompany your coverage, or any other publicity information about this title please contact: Pam Sommers, Executive Director of Publicity, T. (212) 387-3465, psommers@rizzoliusa.com

Since Alex Katz first painted 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 theater and dance aesthetics. 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 Newly commissioned essays, unpublished materials, and major paintings provide an overview of Katz’s working relationships with individual choreographers and shed new light on avant-garde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.

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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 RIZZOLI ELECTA

ALEX KATZ

DANCE & THEATER