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Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person - The Early Years (Paperback)
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Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person - The Early Years (Paperback)
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List price R628
Loot Price R492
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You Save R136 (22%)
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'"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.
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