Perception and the mechanics of looking are the main subjects of Bridget Riley’s essays and collected writings. Essays and interviews discuss how repeated lines, curves, contrasts and later colour relationships can create sensations of movement that are not physically present in the canvas. Publications such as The Eye’s Mind gather her writing on artists, looking and her own working process, while exhibition books place those texts beside reproductions of paintings from different phases of her career. Riley’s prose is reflective and exact, more concerned with how visual experience unfolds than with building a personal memoir. The catalogue is best browsed alongside Op art, abstract painting, colour perception and artists’ writings for readers interested in the craft and theory behind optical effects. Read more Less
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