Bridget Riley: The Complete Prints: 1962-2020

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Bridget Riley has made screenprints throughout her career, extending the principles of her paintings into a new, reproducible medium. Bringing together the complete, updated inventory of this substantial body of work, this volume explores Riley's development as a printmaker and her relationship to the screenprint medium.

Newly revised, updated and designed, this catalogue raisonn richly illustrates Bridget Riley's graphic work in a larger, enhanced format. Alongside a full-colour inventory of the prints are updated essays by Lynn MacRitchie and Craig Hartley and an additional essay by Robert Kudielka, which provide a greater context for Riley's work. This revised volume, a co-publication with The Bridget Riley Art Foundation, also benefits from supplemental material including an artist biography and selected solo and group exhibition history.

Published by Thames & Hudson and the Bridget Riley Art Foundation

Reviews

'Masterclasses in rhythm, repetition and precision' - World of Interiors
'An expansive look at how printmaking has played a crucial part in the practice of the Op Art trailblazer over the past six decades offers new context to the graphic power of Rileys oeuvre' - Art Society Magazine
'A valuable insight into the explorations and compositional devices that Riley makes on her way to making a painting' - Cellophaneland*
'Incredibly insightful' - Printmaking Today
'Magnificent graphics works from the doyenne of op art' - Harper's Bazaar
'The best of her screen prints have all the energy and astonishingly subtle sense of the colour and rhythm of her paintings. Their quality is well conveyed by this comprehensive volume' - The Spectator

Author Bio

Lynn MacRitchie has been active as an artist and writer since the 1970s. Craig Hartley was formerly the curator in charge of prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Robert Kudielka is the Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of the Arts, Berlin.