Embodied Visions
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published: August 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780500976432
Subjects: Individual artists; Op art; Painting & paintings; c 1960 to c 1970; Art
Description: Bridget Riley's paintings are icons of the 1960s., fascinating art lovers now as they did then. Their central position in the art history of the period has not, however, been generally acknowledged. In this new account, Frances Follin reveals the complex associations between Riley's work and the culture in which it appeared - the 'white heat' of the emerging technocracy, counter-cultural utopias, the evolving legacy of Jackson Pollock, and disputes over the direction artistic modernism was taking. Riley's Op art had a central place in contemporary cultural debates and is a point of focus at which many strands of art and cultural history come together.
Table of contents: title: Venus and Mars - The marriage of art and science; title: Painting the doors of perception; title: A modern English art; title: Un-American activities - The reception of Riley's work in America; title: Happenings on canvas - notions of 'the theatrical' in relation to Riley's Op art; title: 'Every epoch dreams the one that follows it' - Op and the commodification of the future; title: The hermaphrodite and the gorilla - the gendering of (Riley's) Op