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Peter Doig's haunting and atmospheric work is often compared to the early 20th century paintings of the Symbolists and Surrealists, and has helped to revive the Romantic spirit. This full-colour monograph is the largest publication dedicated to this important artist's work. It is complemented by a selection of short stories exclusively written for the book by the renowned author Margaret Atwood, and will thus draw a wide literary audience. This catalogue of an important solo exhibition of artist Peter Doig's works on paper collects the artist's recent watercolors, which have garnered major international acclaim, into one fully illustrated volume. Doig's vibrant color combinations and techniques such as dripping and staining lend his works a dreamlike quality, though his images are based in reality. Doig draws upon photographs, film stills, postcards, paintings, and even album covers, reworking and reinterpreting them, to explore notions of memory and fantasy. Befitting this work, the beautiful colour illustrations of this monograph are complemented not by heavy art-historical discourse but by specially commissioned short stories by Margaret Atwood, whose extensive and eloquent writings have often evoked similar themes and have been published in more than thirty languages. "Peter Doig: Works on Paper" features the artist's signature watercolours, and includes never-before-published stories by best-selling author Margaret Atwood.
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Peter Doig's paintings are variously described as uneasy, enigmatic and dreamlike. Though less well-known, Doig's works on paper are equally haunting, and explore many of the same themes and images as his paintings. However, they are not merely a preamble to the canvases, but are vehicles for innovation in their own right. Doig distills images to create works that possess an ephemeral, timeless quality, while he visits notions of recollection and fantasy. This, the first major collection of the artist's works on paper, catches the creative process as it happens. Doig's images are accompanied by a story written by Margaret Atwood exclusively for this publication. Peter Doig was born in Scotland, and now lives and works in Trinidad. In 1994, he was nominated for the Turner Prize.
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfictions including The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. She currently lives and works in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
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- PublisherVerlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 3883759910
- ISBN 13 9783883759913
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages176
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Peter Doig: Works on Paper
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover. Condition: Like new. DJ Condition: Like new. This, the first major collection of the artist s works on paper. In her introduction to this catalogue, Margaret Atwood writes about the experience of looking at Doig's work and reflects on the source of his images. Writer Kadee Robbins forward names Atwood an apt choice to comment on Doig as her short story 'Death by Landscape' is a work of fiction for which the artist has a particular affinity. The story is about a Canadian woman who sees the spectral presence of a long dead childhood friend in her collection of paintings. On an obvious level Atwood's story captures the Canadian landscape of the artist's youth-one that he has depicted many times. Seller Inventory # ABE-1703622367416
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Peter Doig: Works on Paper (English)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 192 Pages, 27.2 x 21.87 cm - This full-color monograph showcases Doig's first show in a public gallery dedicated solely to his paper works of the past 14 years. An artist who credits such inspirations as Hopper, Munch and Matisse, Doig re-works and re-interprets images drawn from photographs, film stills, postcards, paintings and even album covers to explore notions of memory and fantasy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1626697061631
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Peter Doig. Works on Paper (Englisch) Gebundene Ausgabe von Peter Doig (Autor)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2005. Peter Doig s paintings are variously described as uneasy, enigmatic, and dreamlike. Though less well known, Doig s works on paper are equally haunting. These works explore many of the same themes and images but are not merely a preamble to the cannvases. Vehicles for innovation that are full and finished entities in themselves, they have a presence which is entirely their own. This, the first major collection of the artist s works on paper, catches the creative process as it happens. Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 25 volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction including The Edible Woman, The Handmaid's Tale, The Robber Bride, and The Blind Assassin that won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. In englischer Sprache. 176 pages. 26,8 x 22,2 x 2,6 cm. Seller Inventory # BN31842
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