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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moorhouse, Paul (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Ridinghouse, 2019.
Subjects:
Riley, Bridget, > 1931-
Biographies.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:269 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.