Peter Doig

by Richard Shiff, Catherine Lampert, Peter Doig (Contributor)

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 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 handsome slipcased 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  

Genres: Art

400 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2008

Reviews

[Peter West · Rating 5 out of 5]

The single-best book covering Peter Doig's art practice for the price point. High quality photos and exactly what you want from a art-forward book-- mainly art photos and little text. Peter Doig is one of my favorite artists, if not the artist I enjoy the most!

[Janice Gobey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this monograph of Peter Doig's work - great clear photographs of his work with interesting written essays, highly recommended.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love his work and need to find an exhibit. I guess it's time to go to Europe--nothing on public view in the U.S. that I can find.

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peter Doig's paintings are beautiful and weird. I saw an exhibition a few years ago which left a lasting impression, and they still hold a lot of their presence reproduced in the book.

Peter Doig includes two substantial essays, which have some interesting analytical things to say about Doig’s work. There's also an interview/conversation with the artist. What I found most interesting was the insight into Doig’s creative practice. He works with photographs and film stills: multiple paintings made from one image, paintings composed of a combination of images, a combination of a postcard and a memory. The interference of the photographic medium, effects of overexposure, stills from a low res video all this is worked into the paintings.

[Elisa Goudriaan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Fondation Beyeler in Basel was the first museum that paid attention to Peter Doig’s experimental prints, which in my opninion are the strongest and most beautiful works in this catalogue. The conversation between Ulf Küster and Peter Doig adds a lot to the understanding of Doig’s printmaking process. Often, he tells, he uses a mixture of black ink and fine powdered sugar and by purpose he doesn’t clean the plate properly, so that he gets a kind of granular structure, which gives his etchings the enigmatic character they have. I would love to see these etchings one time in a museum somewhere in the world. In the introduction the organizors of the exhibition (in 2014/2015) write that many of the exhibited paintings derive from private collections, so Doig himself was also looking forward to seeing his own paintings back, all together.

[Paul H. · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I've spent the last five months systematically working through the history of fine art in all genres (very long review of . . . literally all art TK, for the book that started this journey) -- but now that I'm about two-thirds of the way through, I have to give a shoutout to Peter Doig, who is almost certainly the greatest painter of the past few decades.