Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714861200 ISBN 13: 9780714861203

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2011

Synopsis

American painter Elizabeth Peyton (b.1965) is best known for her unmistakable portraits of musicians, fashion icons and subculture luminaries. This book documents her works from her entire career and includes magazine clippings, historical paintings and unpublished snapshots from her personal archive.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Hoptman is Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where her exhibitions have included 'Unmonumental' (2007, co-curated with Richard Flood and Massimiliano Gioni), 'Tomma Abts' (2008) and 'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton'. Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Previously she was Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern and Commissioning Editor of Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press. John Giorno is a poet, performance artist and AIDS activist and fundraiser whose collaborators have included William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Review:

"Peyton's intense and affecting paintings [...] are gathered in this intimate monograph."-Harpers Bazaar

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0714861200
• ISBN 13: 9780714861203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Hoptman Laura