Reivew of Bridget Riley, The Curve Paintings 1961-2014

Chilver, John. 2016. Reivew of Bridget Riley, The Curve Paintings 1961-2014. Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2(2), pp. 318-321. ISSN 2052-6695 [Article]

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Critical review of a survey of Bridget Riley's Curve Paintings, at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, June-Sept 2015. The review argues that Riley's oevre is characterized by a tension between a potetntially disruptive opticality, on the one hand, and a sober formalism, on the other; the curation of surveys like this seems dedicated to concealing this basic tension, which is what is most interesting in Riley's body of work.

Item Type:

Article

Keywords:

Bridget Riley. Op Art. Painting. Formalism. Modernist painting.

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Art

Dates:

DateEvent
2016Accepted

Item ID:

21291

Date Deposited:

26 Sep 2017 15:46

Last Modified:

02 Aug 2018 08:31

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/21291

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