Books published by Ridinghouse

Focusing on John Hilliard's fascination with the monochrome and visual obstruction, this career-spanning volume draws together the artist's diverse engagement with photography.

Perception and mimesis explored through the visual language of household detritusBalancing the profound with the absurd, London-based artist Neil Gall (born 1967) translates the visceral and psychological interactions between materials and their surfaces to unsettling, surreal and sometimes erotic effect in his drawings.

This book accompanys PEER's show presenting a group of sculptural works produced between the late 1940s and early 1990s. An exhibition that focused on Jevric's Proposals for Monuments was presented at the Henry Moore Institute in 2006, but this will be Jevric's first solo exhibition in London. Jevric worked primarily with a mixture of cement, iron dust, rods and nails, to create a range of distinct forms that investigate the relationship between solid matter and void; weight and weightlessness; containment and release. The surface of the works are roughly textured and pitted as if created by nature, rather than the artist's hand. Jevric referred to her work as ?spatial compositions? rather than sculptures, suggesting how her musical training provided her with an understanding of how abstract form, like tone and timbre, can be used to highly expressive ends.0 0By way of bringing Jevric's extraordinary work to contemporary British audiences, Richard Deacon (who met the artist at her studio on a number of occasions) and Phyllida Barlow and have been invited to write personal responses to this artist's work. Other texts include an introduction by Fedja Klikovac of Handel Street Projects, a preface by Ingrid Swenson from PEER gallery and an essay by Serbian art historian Jesa Denegri.00Exhibition: PEER gallery, London, UK (28.06.-14.09.2019).

An elegant compilation of Cezanne's drawings and prints from the collection of the late Karsten Schubert, bequethed to the Whitworth.

Essays on art and participation from the late Guy Brett, veteran champion of kinetic and Latin American art.

The first comprehensive selection of writings by British art theorist Adrian Stokes, including important posthumously published essays in addition to classic texts - highlighting him as a pioneering thinker on art and a virtuoso of the essay form.

Working in London, New York and Cape Town, Roelof Louw (1936-2017) made sculpture from wooden slats, cast iron wedges, sandblasted and painted scaffolding poles, rope and neon; he also anticipated the participatory art of the present. The most authoritative overview on Louw, this book presents a new viewpoint on a familiar era.

This beautiful catalog showcases works by British artist Stezaker made between 1976 and 2017--interventions into found images dating mostly from the mid-20th century such as film stills, press and publicity photographs, magazines, and postcards.ards.

British conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. Using antique travel postcards, famous movie starlet headshots from the 1940s, and old movie stills, Stezaker creates a world full of mystery and humor in each artwork. Critic David Campany described Stezaker as drawn to that very sli

A tight selection of new drawings by noted British artist Cecily Brown (b. 1969) are featured in her challenging new monograph Shipwreck. These extraordinary works of wrecked shipsfrantic and prone bodiescarefully illuminate the tensions between the past and present. Brown notes that her inspiration comes from eugne Delacroixs shipwreck paintings,

Notes from the Playground is a carefully selected anthology of 30 essays by the curator, academic and writer, Richard Flood.

The period between 1999 and 2016 was a particularly fruitful period in the reception of Bridget Rileys work. This handsome new anthology, Selected Writings, includes the significant writings that broadened the discourse and solidified Rileys reputation as one of the most important painters of her generation. The essays range from biographical and c

Examining a breakthrough moment in Bridget Rileys career, the latest volume in the extensive library of focused publications on the artists oeuvre illustrates the importance of color in her investigations of visual contrast and perception. During the early 1960s, Rileys black-and-white work employed elementary shapes to convey movement and light. H

This publication spotlights Piet Mondrian's early career, a prolific period that saw the artist focus on figurative landscape painting during his time spent in Amsterdam.