Bridget Riley: Paintings 1963-2015
Ridinghouse (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2016
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-909932-26-5 (ISBN)
Description
Spanning over 50 years of Bridget Riley's career, this volume explores the dialogue between black-and-white and colour in the artist's work.
Riley gained critical attention internationally for her black-and-white paintings during the mid-1960s, using elementary shapes to engage the eye by creating flux and rhythm within the pictorial field. Throughout the succeeding decades, she has continued her investigation into perception through related bodies of work in rich colour.
This volume accompanied a focused display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2016-17), that tracks Riley's work up to her recent reintroduction of a monochromatic palette. It includes essays by Eric de Chassey and Frances Spalding as well as a historic interview with the artist by Robert Kudielka, which together contextualise Riley's early developments and demonstrate how her latest black-and-white paintings progress directly out of a rigorous engagement with colour.
Riley gained critical attention internationally for her black-and-white paintings during the mid-1960s, using elementary shapes to engage the eye by creating flux and rhythm within the pictorial field. Throughout the succeeding decades, she has continued her investigation into perception through related bodies of work in rich colour.
This volume accompanied a focused display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2016-17), that tracks Riley's work up to her recent reintroduction of a monochromatic palette. It includes essays by Eric de Chassey and Frances Spalding as well as a historic interview with the artist by Robert Kudielka, which together contextualise Riley's early developments and demonstrate how her latest black-and-white paintings progress directly out of a rigorous engagement with colour.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
32 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 257 mm
Width: 215 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-909932-26-5 (9781909932265)
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Persons
Eric de Chassey is Director General of the French National Institute of Art History (INHA) and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France. He previously served as Director of the Academie de France a Rome - Villa Medicis. Frances Spalding is an independent art historian, critic and biographer. Formerly Professor of Art History at Newcastle University, she was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to literature. Her book on interwar English art was published in 2022.
Robert Kudielka is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin and a curator. He is a noted scholar on the works of Bridget Riley and has published numbers books on, and with, the artist.
Robert Kudielka is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin and a curator. He is a noted scholar on the works of Bridget Riley and has published numbers books on, and with, the artist.