Patrick Hughes: Perverspective - Softcover

Slyce, John; Hughes, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902945514 ISBN 13: 9781902945514

Publisher: Momentum, 1998

Synopsis

Patrick Hughes' pictures are hard to describe, but easy to enjoy. Hughes makes moving pictures. His libraries, skyscrapers and mazes seem to turn around and follow you like the eyes in portraits are said to do. Flat on the page they don't 'work', but when animated by the motion and mind of the viewer his pictures spring to life. For well over thirty years, Hughes has captured the hearts and perceptual thoughts of an ever expanding public with his art. In this book, the first to handle the entirety of Hughes' production, John Slyce gives an entertaining and intelligent account of the artist's formation and the implications of his paradoxical art.

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Review

Patrick Hughes' Perverspective at Flowers East is the most arresting and extraordinary art on show in London or anywhere else. His perverse perspectives turn the world inside out, throw you into reverse, and move in a way they just should not. One Glaswegian friend described walking forwards and backwards past the Hughes in the Gallery of Modern Art there and laughing out loud each time the unexpected spasm of space turned the wrong way again. After three or four trips he had collected a whole train of compatriots, all giggling way. 'Perhaps it is a video installation?' somebody asked, unable to understand the mechanics of this perverse perspective. But there are no moving parts apart from you. -- excerpt, James Heartfield, LM, October 1998

About the Author

John Slyce is an American writer who lives in London. He writes regularly on contemporary art in Flash Art and is contributing to a forthcoming monograph on Gillian Wearing to be published by Phaidon. He lives in the East End with his wife Tamsin and their daughter Lara who was born shortly before this, his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Momentum
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902945514
• ISBN 13: 9781902945514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 172