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Katz and Brainard often collaborated with poets—particularly those of the New York School, such as Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman and Ron Padgett—on artists' books, poetry publications, book covers, writings and paintings.

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ISBN	9781949172867
Book Title	Alex Katz and Joe Brainard: Flowers Journals
Publisher	Karma
Item Length	10.3 in
Publication Year	2023
Format	Hardcover
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.5 in
Author	Joe Brainard
Genre	Art, Literary Collections
Topic	Individual Artists / Monographs, Essays
Item Weight	16.8 Oz
Item Width	9.5 in
Number of Pages	44 Pages

Alex Katz & Joe Brainard : Flowers Journals, Hardcover by Katz, Alex (CON); Brainard, Joe, ISBN 1949172864, ISBN-13 9781949172867, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Alex Katz celebrates an old friendship, illustrating Brainard’s 1970s journals with charcoal flower drawings

In this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries by his old friend Joe Brainard (1941–94) with a new series of exquisite charcoal drawings of flowers (a popular motif in Brainard’s own art). Katz and Brainard often collaborated with poets—particularly those of the New York School, such as Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman and Ron Padgett—on artists' books, poetry publications, book covers, writings and paintings. Brainard’s journal entries in this volume, written between 1971 and 1972, express this milieu, with accounts of conversations and expeditions with Waldman and Padgett as well as frequent mention of his appreciation for Katz’s work: “How Alex has remained so pure all these years is beyond me,” he notes in one entry, enumerating his favorite Katz works. Katz’s charcoal drawings are simple and clear in execution, matching the serene clarity that famously characterizes Brainard’s prose.