Bridget Riley: Flashback

About this book

Bridget Riley is that rare instance of an artist whose work breaks free of art history and merges with the broader cultural imagination yet preserves for itself a rigorous focused dialogue with paintings most basic properties: the interaction of form and color. Produced in close collaboration with the artist Flashback tracks Bridget Rileys career from its sensational beginnings in the early 1960s at the helm of Op art to the ambitious and powerful paintings and works on paper of recent years. Alongside a wealth of reproductions of works from 1961 to 2007 it also features an illustrated chronology and list of works in U.K. public collections an essay by Michael Bracewell and a wonderful meditation by Riley titled "Work " in which she looks back on the curve of her art across the decades. "You cannot deal with thought directly outside practice as a painter " she writes: "doing is essential in order to find out what form your thought takes." Flashback reveals Ril