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In the popular imagination, possibly no other artist's work is more recognizable than that of Salvador Dali¿. Indeed, for many he is the ultimate mad artist, whose singular vision remorselessly probed his own psychological depths. His nightmarish visions and bizarre landscapes express the angst and turbulence of the twentieth century. Dali¿'s creativity embraced many different modes of expression and was never constrained by any one style. Ove...

Among the many pictorial devices Bridget Riley has deployed over

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.

Paul Moorhouse is an independent curator and writer. Formerly Curator of Twentieth - Century Portraits and Head of Displays (Victorian to Contemporary) at the National Portrait Gallery , London , his publications include Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends ( 2017 ) , Giacometti: Pure Presence (2015), The Great War in Portraits (2014), Cindy Sherman (2014), A Guide to Twentieth Century Portraits (2013), The Queen Art & Image (2011), Bridget Riley: F...

Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 16-Jan. 2, 2010.

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.

This book surveys Caro's free-standing, floor-based, constructed, abstract sculptures from 1960 to the present. The unifying theme of these works is that they answer Caro's imperative 'to make something that was as important in a room as a person'. The author explores the idea of presence in Caro's sculpture, focusing on the way that in order to in

This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the various phases of the artists career and explores in detail his depiction of his main sitters, including his mother, Diego his brother, his wife Annette, Jean Genet the playwright, Caroline, a prostitute, and his friends Yanaihara and Lotar. Early drawings, paintings and sculptures of members of his family and his own image demonstrate Giacomettis awareness of post-­- impressionist an...

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Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is widely regarded as Britain's greatest living sculptor and has enjoyed an international reputation since the early 1960s. Although best known for his work in steel, Caro has also worked in bronze, wood, lead, ceramics, and paper, on both large and intimate scales. Since the 1980s, the range of Caro's work has increased, encompassing sculpitecture (sculpture that the viewer can enter), large-scale works that allude to c...

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Focusing on Bridget Riley's newest body of works, this volume reflects the artist's exploration of curves to create paintings of great energy and movement. Accompanying an exhibition of new 'curvilinear' works at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (June-July 2006), these paintings incorporate complex layers of flowing forms that interlock and move with one another. Using a patch of colour that is similar to a brushmark, Riley's forms interrupt and...

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