Book Description

"No painter, dead or alive, has ever made us more aware of our eyes than Bridget Riley."-The New Statesman

Uncompromising and remarkably innovative, Bridget Riley is one of the most respected artists working today. This comprehensive survey of Riley's 40-year career, published to accompany a major exhibition at Tate Britain, London, includes key examples in lush colorplates of all phases of her work.

Riley first attracted critical attention with the dazzling black-and-white paintings she began to make in 1961 under the "Op Art" banner. Popularized through the mass media and widely "borrowed" by the fashion industry, these images came to epitomize an era. Since then she has remained at the forefront of developments in contemporary painting, making highly distinctive works that articulate an abstract language in which relationships of color and form generate powerful visual sensations.

Each new development in Riley's work generates fresh interest in her art. Here, Paul Moorhouse, Richard Shiff, and Robert Kudielka provide an overview of her work and career, and fresh analyses of the ways in which her work relates to theories of aesthetic perception. ... Read more

Book Description

This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on July 14, 2003. The length of the article is 1472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Ever-increasing circles: In the 1960s, Bridget Riley revolutionised our way of seeing. A retrospective of her work, far from being an act of closure, shows she is as inventive as ever. (The Back Half).
Author: Richard Cork
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 14, 2003
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 132Issue: 4646Page: 42(2)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Book Description

This digital document is an article from New Statesman (1996), published by New Statesman, Ltd. on February 4, 2002. The length of the article is 1102 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Method in his madness: Was Paul Klee a creator of whimsical fantasies, or a dry academic? Ned Denny is uncomfortable with Bridget Riley's attempts to reinvent him in her own image. (The Back Half).(Brief Article)
Author: Ned Denny
Publication: New Statesman (1996) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 4, 2002
Publisher: New Statesman, Ltd.
Volume: 131Issue: 4573Page: 40(2)

Article Type: Brief Article

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Time to look again
I read some excerpts from this book in Modern Painters and was curious. I had seen her show at the DIA Center in NYC last year, and was not sure what to make of her work. But as a writer on art, painting in particular, I think she is amazing. The book gives a good sense of what painting is fro Riley and also what is involved in the pursuit of painting today. She almost comes off as a rather cool individual, but she so straightforward and clear that I ended up feeling that she had given as much as one could want. I await my next opportunity to look at her work in person.

This is the third book in this series I have read, the other two being: Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 about Bill Viola and Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting about Gerhard Richter. These are beautiful, amazing books. ... Read more