Peter Doig

Peter DoigThe most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize nominated artist Peter Doig. In every generation of artists, there are a few or perhaps just one who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of painting's demise in the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic, Doig looking ahead as much as back for inspiration forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix

The most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig.

In every generation of artists, there are a few-or perhaps just one-who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of painting's demise in the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic, Doig-looking ahead as much as back for inspiration-forged a new painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism to create haunting and sometimes dreamlike landscape vistas.
In this lavish new volume devoted to his entire career-which includes paintings, drawings, and reference material, such as found photographs-art historians Richard Shiff and Catherine Lampert mine the artist's rich and varied work. Doig's landscapes have been inspired by the many places the artist has lived-England, Canada, Trinidad. So, too, does memory, or the idea of memory, inform much of his production.
This volume is designed in close collaboration with the artist, with Doig specially creating the cover and various elements of the interior. Every facet of the painter's singular vision is explored, from his earliest paintings of the early 1990s to the most recent series of works.
Published in association with Michael Werner Gallery

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Peter Doig, Richard Shiff (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Catherine Lampert (Text by (Art/Photo Books))
Published: 03/07/2017
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847849796
Pages: 432
Weight: 5.40lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.40w x 1.80d

About the Author
Peter Doig has been the subject of scores of exhibitions throughout his career, including a major traveling survey in 2008 at Tate Britain, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Richard Shiff is a renowned art historian and critic. Catherine Lampert is an independent curator and writer based in England.