Bridget Riley: Retrospective
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Texts by Jonathan Crary, Nadia Chalbi, Frances Follin, Robert Kudielka, Anne Montfort, Eric Chassey, Semir Zeki. Interview with the artist by Lynne Cooke
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, this comprehensive volume illuminates the history and motivations behind Bridget Riley’s energetic art. Illustrations of over 60 Riley paintings are complemented by more than 80 drawings, which offers a unique opportunity to compare early works inspired by Georges Seurat alongside both her well-known black and white paintings during the 1960s and her recent canvases of curved forms and vivid colors. This bilingual catalogue contains six essays by Eric de Chassey, Jonathan Crary, Frances Follin, Robert Kudielka, Anne Montfort, and Semir Zeki; an interview with the artist by Lynne Cooke; a text about the two mural works by Nadia Chalbi; and an extensive biography. Providing an overview of Riley’s growing oeuvre, this volume is a detailed account of the artist’s ceaseless creative process.
Publisher: Ridinghouse / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Artists: Bridget Riley
Contributors: Nadia Chalbi, Éric de Chassey, Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, Frances Follin, Robert Kudielka, Anne Montfort, Semir Zeki
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in (24.1 x 29.8 cm)
Pages: 328
Reproductions: 140 color
ISBN: 9781905464159
Retail: $85 US & Canada | £35 | €45
Status: Available
Bridget Riley
One of the most significant artists working today, Bridget Riley’s dedication to the interaction of form and color has led to a continued exploration of perception. From the early 1960s, she has used elementary shapes such as lines, circles, curves, and squares to create visual experiences that actively engage the viewer, at times triggering optical sensations of vibration and movement. Her earliest black-and-white compositions offer impressions of several other pigments, while ensuing, multi-chromatic works present color as an active component. Although abstract, her practice is closely linked with nature, which she understands to be “the dynamism of visual forces—an event rather than an appearance.”
Robert Kudielka
Robert Kudielka is an art historian and former Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He is the co-author with Bridget Riley of Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works, 1914-1940 (2002) and author and editor of numerous books on Riley, including Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley: Essays and interviews since 1972 (2005; revised and expanded edition, 2014) and The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley, Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009).