"Bridget Riley: Flashback" is the first in a new series of monographic exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection. Each exhibition will bring together outstanding early works by high profile British artists, and set them against major recent works borrowed from the artists themselves. Produced in [...]
For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. This catalogue and DVD accompany the National Gallery exhibition Bridget Riley: Arcadi[...]
For decades the most continually provocative of British artists, Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) was long concerned with the great themes of Western painting. Based on letters and conversations, this publication looks at Hamilton's long relationship with the National Gallery and how he shaped his final[...]
Celebrated for his brilliant use of old film stills, portraits, postcards and other found imagery, John Stezaker engages with this exquisitely selected found material through inversion, excision, incision, fusion and accidental damage. In this extensive monograph/exhibition catalog, Stezaker focuses[...]
Paintings and Related Works 19802011.
Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From The Clash, Crass, Henry Rollins[...]