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

Peter Doig (Rizzoli Classics)

Arts & Photography

Doig, Peter

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Blizzard Seventy-Seven

Peter Doig is one of Britain's most prominent and exciting young artists, and this timely catalogue, which accompanied three related but discrete exhibitions, two in Germany and one in England, clearly shows why. After opening with a series of black-and-white photographs from the winter of 1977, the book concentrates on Doig's figurative and representational paintings; large scale canvases most of which depict winter scenes. Essays by Felicity Lunn, Terry R. Myers, Eva Meyer-Hermann and Hans-Werner Schmidt. 36 color and 44 b&w. 7.5 x 9.5 in.

Blizzard seventy-seven

Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Peter Doig: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 19 January-11 March 2001, National Gallery of Canada, 17 August-28 October, 2001, the Power Plant, 6 December 2001-28 February 2002

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia

Although Peter Doig has had many publications dedicated to his oeuvre, this one focuses solely on his works on paper, examining the artist's themes of the past 12 years. Doig's signature atmospheric works have helped to revive the popularity of figurative painting, a genre lately overshadowed by photography and video art. Inspired by many pictorial models from painting to film to photography, Doig distills images to create works that possess an ephemeral, timeless quality, while he visits notions of recollection and fantasy. With approximately 100 images, many of them reproduced here for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive view of the celebrated artist's work to date. Instead of an art historical text, Doig's images are accompanied by a suite of short stories written by Margaret Atwood exclusively for this publication.  Short stories by Margaret Atwood.  Hardcover, 8.25 x 10 in./148 pgs / 100 color.

Peter Doig: Works On Paper

Individual Artists

Windsor Pr

Works on paper play an important role in Peter Doig's oeuvre, from the artist's adept maneuvering through drawing, etching and watercolor, to the various commercial and personal source materials he uses in the studio. This first publication devoted to Peter Doig's work on paper includes over 40 large, full-color illustrations, plus an insightful essay on Doig's work. Essay by Adrian Searle. Paperback, 9.25 x 12.5 in./50 pgs / 44 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20296

Peter Doig: Works on Paper

Searle, Adrian

Michael Werner Gallery

Viewers of a picture by Peter Doig usually experience the vague sensation of having seen a similar motif somewhere else before. This is due to the fact that Doig bases most of his pictorial compositions on models taken from the flood of media images that saturate us daily, appropriating quotations from record covers, sequences from horror movies or citations from art history. Doig's oil paintings--"harmless" only at first glance--come in alienating colors with strongly atmospheric effects. Stylistically composed of sampled painting methods, they present a thoroughly unnerving picture of nature. Doig helps himself freely to the collective archive of images, irritating his viewers by refusing to spell out what the picture is precisely about or where it takes place. His eerily familiar mountain landscapes, forest and ocean works, with their scattered human figures, seem to depict dream sequences or snapshots from stories which are bound to end badly. Published in conjunction with the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht.

Peter Doig: Charley's Space

van den Bosch, Paula

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Myers, Terry R.

Kerber Verlag

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