Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton

by Iwona Blazwick, John Giorno, Laura Hoptman

American artist Elizabeth Peyton has been credited with infusing the old genre of portraiture with a new life. Her idealized and highly stylized oil paintings and drawings of willowy, melancholy figures -- often contemporary celebrities, artists or friends -- raise questions around the possible role of the genre today.

Elizabeth Peyton is published in conjunction with the artist's major solo exhibition at the New Museum in New York, which will travel to the Whitechapel in London, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht.

Genres: Art

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2008

Reviews

[Cora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sometimes I forget how much Elizabeth Peyton’s paintings and the images she cites as her influences have fortified my perception of what is beautiful, have encouraged me to be moved by the visuals that so do.