Bridget Riley : a very, very person : the early years / Paul Moorhouse.

"In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York and paid homage to abrilliant 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 yo...

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Main Author: Moorhouse, Paul (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Ridinghouse, 2019.
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Physical Description:269 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
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505 0 |a Ancestral landscape -- A very very person -- Unearthly beauty -- Leaving Trevemadar -- First steps -- Great promise -- The fledgling -- The goldsmiths -- Looking and drawing -- The bargain not kept -- Paradise and disaster -- Crisis -- Recovery -- Developing process -- A visual education -- Looking becomes the subject -- Italy -- Into black -- Movement in squares -- Gallery one -- New horizons -- Saint Elmo's fire -- Acclaim. 
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