Ridinghouse Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person
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Price: £20.00
Brand: Ridinghouse
Description: As Paul Moorhouse shows in this thorough and sensitive first biography, which concentrates on [ Riley's] early years up to the age of thirty-four, it was only after many false starts, bracing shocks and firm decisions that Riley found her way as an abstract painter in the early 1960s with her eye-dazzling lines, squares, curves. in ultra-hard-edged black-and-white. - Times Literary Supplement In 'Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person - The Early Years," Paul Moorhouse. homes in on the period between the artist's childhood and her earliest success, and makes a surprising but compelling case for the influence of landscape on Ms Riley's distinctive style. - Wall Street Journal An entertaining and informative text that adds greatly to our understanding of a very prominent and still highly intriguing British artist. - Hyperallergic In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The Responsive Eye, a major exhibition of abstract painting at the Museum of Modern Art, signalled the latest phenomenon, op art - and its centre of attention was a young painter named Bridget Riley, whose dazzling painting Current appeared on the cover of the catalogue. Riley's first solo show in New York sold out, and, following a feature in Vogue magazine, the Riley 'look' became a fashion craze. Overnight, she had become a sensation, yet only three years earlier, she was a virtual unknown. How did success arrive so suddenly? Authored by the acclaimed curator and writer Paul Moorhouse, A Very Very Person is the first biography of Bridget Riley and addresses that tantalising question. Focusing on her early years, it tells the story of a remarkable woman whose art and life were entwined in surprising ways. This intimate narrative explores Riley's wartime childhood spent in the idyllic Cornish countryside, her subsequent struggles to find her way as an artist, and the personal challenges she faced before finally arriving as one of the world's most celebrated artists in Swinging Sixties London.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781909932500
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ISBN: 9781909932500
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