Peter Halley: A Monograph

by Robert Hobbs

What a prominent contemporary artist reveals about painting in the digital age--an era characterized by simulation and hyperreality.

At the height of postmodernism, just as the digital world was becoming a reality, Peter Halley revitalized painting by affiliating his work with sociology and science fiction. Employing lowbrow, commercial media--fluorescent colors and Roll-A-Tex, an additive used to surface suburban architecture--he debunked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3777441678
• ISBN13: 9783777441672
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 11.2"