Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton


A beautiful presentation of the stylish artist's celebrated drawings and paintings.


Laura Hoptman, Iwona Blazwick, John Giorno


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Price: USD$39.95

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Overview
  • American painter Elizabeth Peyton (b.1965) is best known for her unmistakable portraits of musicians, fashion icons and subculture luminaries
  • Newly available in paperback, Live Forever documents Peyton’s works from her entire career and includes magazine clippings, historical paintings and unpublished snapshots from her personal archive, along with detailed commentaries on the individual works
  • Peyton’s paintings exemplify new ideas of masculinity while offering a seductive record of an ephemeral scene, updating David Hockney’s intimate 1960s Pop draughtsmanship for the present day
  • Works by Peyton can be found in major collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris



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About the book
American artist Elizabeth Peyton has been credited with infusing the ancient art of portraiture with a new life. Her idealized, highly stylized oil paintings, drawings and watercolours are driven by the emotional, adoring eye of an unrequited lover. Willowy, melancholy young men and women -- contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists and friends -- are the magnetic subjects of her devotion. Caught as if in a state of ambiguous absorption and frozen at the height of their youth, they embody a new kind of portraiture that confirms and updates the immortalizing aura of the traditional genre. Peyton's melding of influences and obsessions ranges widely: from fandom and fashion illustration to academic anatomical studies; from David Hockney and Andy Warhol to a range of Mannerist and Old Master classics; from innocence to the world of bohemia, equally crediting photography and life drawing as its driving forces. Her enamoured yet refreshingly economic, informal, light wash technique underscores her uniquely delicate, informed hybrid of high and low culture, a statement executed with infectious, seemingly effortless fluidity.


 

About the author(s)

Laura Hoptman is Kraus Family Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where her exhibitions have included ‘Unmonumental’ (2007, co-curated with Richard Flood and Massimiliano Gioni), ‘Tomma Abts’ (2008) and ‘Elizabeth Peyton’ (2008).

Iwona Blazwick is Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Previously she was Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern and Commissioning Editor of Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press.

John Giorno is a poet, performance artist and AIDS activist and fundraiser whose collaborators have included William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson and Robert Mapplethorpe.



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