Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 978-1-9168928-04
Alex Katz: Coca-Cola Girls is the first monograph on the renowned American artist to focus on his longest-spanning series, the Coca Cola Girls. This comprehensive work includes an illuminating essay by acclaimed art historian Robert Storr, who reflects upon the late series and his own relationship with Katz.
The Coca Cola Girls series brings together the most significant elements of Katz’s painting practice: his skilled portraiture; the influence of twentieth-century cinema and advertising imagery on his perspective; and his focus on fashion and women.
The series is inspired by the iconic Coca-Cola Girls advertising line, which ran from the 1890s through the 1960s, which had an enormous impact on the visual language of the American urban language. For Katz, this ideal encapsulates a nostalgia for an idealized past, the style and attitude of a moment in time.
Essay by Robert Storr
