Best Art Books of 2020

Some kinds of work transmit easily via sheets of paper, books or screens, some much less so. This point is brought out by Bridget Riley: The Complete Prints 1962-2020 (Thames & Hudson and the Bridget Riley Art Foundation, £45).

Riley is of course a marvellous painter — much admired, incidentally, by the Albers — but of a particular kind. She is immensely interested in the relationship between colour and shapes, but not in brush-strokes, texture or what artists call ‘touch’. That means that one print medium perfectly suits her: screen printing — a technique which can produce density and depth of colour approaching that of paint.

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