Synopsis
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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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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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. 176pp with colour illustrations. Dust jacket in good condition with an open tear to the side. Seller Inventory # 010306
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Peter Doig: Works on Paper
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Publication accompanying exhibition of Peter Doig's work on paper with 150 beautifully printed full-page colour reproductions and a brief essay by Margaret Atwood. First printing with full number line. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. No marks, inscriptions or fading to inside pages. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 176 pages. P2. Seller Inventory # EDB03298
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Peter Doig: Works on Paper (English)
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Walther König, Köln, 2005
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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 22 x 27 cm, 192 Pages - 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
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Atwood, Margaret. PETER DOIG: Works on Paper. Foreword by Kadee Robbins; 176 pp., 150 color plates. 4to, cloth. Vero Beach, London, New York, Toronto; Windsor Press, in association with New York, Rizzoli, 2005. Doig's enigmatic imagery and solidy constructed compositions have put him in the forefront of a generation that is re-invigorating figurative painting. Published to accompany a travelling exhibition. Seller Inventory # 115580