The most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter
Doig. In every generation of artists, there are a few-or perhaps just
one-who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand
art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of painting's demise in
the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic,
Doig-looking ahead as much as back for inspiration-forged a new
painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and post-impressionism
to create haunting and sometimes dreamlike landscape vistas.
In this lavish new volume devoted to his entire career-which includes
paintings, drawings, and reference material, such as found
photographs-art historians Richard Shiff and Catherine Lampert mine the
artist's rich and varied work. Doig's landscapes have been inspired by
the many places the artist has lived-England, Canada, Trinidad. So, too,
does memory, or the idea of memory, inform much of his production.
This volume is designed in close collaboration with the artist, with
Doig specially creating the cover and various elements of the interior.
Every facet of the painter's singular vision is explored, from his
earliest paintings of the early 1990s to the most recent series of
works.
Published in association with Michael Werner Gallery
