Peter Halley

A Monograph

Robert Hobbs

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Hirmer Verlag
07 May 2024

Art & design styles: Conceptual art; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Painting as simulation and hyperreality: Peter Halley and the digital age.

In the 1980s, Peter Halley revitalised painting by relying on sociology and science fiction. He employed fluorescent colours and Roll-A-Tex to deconstruct early and mid-twentieth-century transcendent geometric abstraction into abstract cells and prisons and by adding conduits to imaginatively access outside forces.

Peter Halley has met many challenges posed by the Information Age and French poststructuralism by situating his painting on the divide separating analogue and digital worlds. Robert Hobbs's monograph analyses Halley's geometric and highly keyed art in terms of opportunities provided by the Internet, aesthetic possibilities afforded by Photoshop, timely relevance advanced by Michel Foucault's and Jean Baudrillard's sociological theories, and conundrums presented by both science fiction and physics.

By: Robert Hobbs
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 240mm,
Weight: 1.560kg
ISBN: 9783777441672
ISBN 10: 3777441678
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

A noted curator and art historian, Robert Hobbs specialises in modern, postmodern, and contemporary art. The author of more than fifty books and major catalogues on 20th and 21st-century art, including monographs on Alice Aycock, Edward Hopper, Robert Motherwell, Robert Smithson, and Kara Walker, he has served as a professor at Yale, Cornell and VCU.