Spanning over 50 years of Bridget Riley’s career, this volume explores the dialogue between black-and-white and colour in the artist’s work. Riley gained critical attention internationally for her black-and-white paintings during the mid-1960s, using elementary shapes to engage the eye by creating flux and rhythm within the pictorial field. Throughout the succeeding decades, she has continued her investigation into perception through related bodies of work in rich colour. This volume accompanied a focused display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2016 17), that tracks Riley’s work up to her recent reintroduction of a monochromatic palette. It includes essays by Eric de Chassey and Frances Spalding as well as a historic interview with the artist by Robert Kudielka, which together contextualise Riley’s early developments and demonstrate how her latest black-and-white paintings progress directly out of a rigorous engagement with colour. AUTHORS: Eric de Chassey is Director General of the French National Institute of Art History (INHA) and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France. He previously served as Director of the Academie de France a Rome - Villa Medicis. Frances Spalding is an independent art historian, critic and biographer. Formerly Professor of Art History at Newcastle University, she was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to literature. Her book on interwar English art was published in 2022. Robert Kudielka is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and a curator. He is a noted scholar on the works of Bridget Riley and has published numbers books on, and with, the artist. SELLING POINTS: . Contextualises over 50 years of Riley’s career, looking in particular at her move from black-and-white to colour and back again . Essays by Riley specialist Eric de Chassey and art historian Frances Spalding are complemented by a historic interview of the artist by longtime associate Robert Kudielka, along with biographical notes on the artist 32 colour illustrations
