Bøger af Paul Moorhouse

The perfect introduction to the life and work of Cindy Sherman.

Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The first biography of artist Bridget Riley, focusing on her early years and the development of her art, up to her breakthrough success in the mid-1960s.

A luxurious exploration of the development of British painter John Virtue's dynamic monochromesJohn Virtue (born 1947) is best known for his monochromatic drawings and paintings of London, Venice and the seascapes around Norfolk. This substantial overview looks at the development of Virtue's art and traces his close relationship with locations in Devon, Exeter, London, Italy and Norfolk.

Matters of Life and Death is a limited-edition publication documenting the recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b.1963). Exploring subjects including abstraction and figuration, portraiture and personae, and fetishism and the male gaze, Patterson's paintings are complex, cryptic and, at times, haunting.

Hodgkin's art can be seen as providing memorials for people, many of whom are friends, whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, surveys the development of Hodgkin's portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present, including new paintings.

Examining a breakthrough moment in Bridget Rileys career, the latest volume in the extensive library of focused publications on the artists oeuvre illustrates the importance of color in her investigations of visual contrast and perception. During the early 1960s, Rileys black-and-white work employed elementary shapes to convey movement and light. H

Catalogue from a 2006 London exhibition of new and energetic 'curvilinear' works by celebrated British Op artist Bridget Riley - her first UK show since her major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2013.

Published on the occasion of Bridget Riley's major exhibition at David Zwirner in London in the summer of 2014, this title offers intimate explorations of paintings and works on paper produced by the legendary British artist over the past 50 years, focusing specifically on her recurrent use of the stripe motif.

Takes readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie's private collection of contemporary British art, an intended gift to the Yale Center for British Art, which includes major works by Ian Stephenson, Patrick Caulfield, and John Walker, as well as important prints by Howard Hodgkin and R B Kitaj.