Peter Doig

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PETER DOIG: GO WEST YOUNG MAN
Text by Rudi Fuchs, Hans-Werner Schmidt.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865601919 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2007
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PETER DOIG: STUDIOFILMCLUB
Essays by Nicholas Laughlin and Alice Koegel. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883759418 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 1/1/2006
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PETER DOIG
Edited by Judith Nesbitt. Essay by Richard Shiff.
TATE/D.A.P.
ISBN: 9781933045849 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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PETER DOIG: METROPOLITAIN
Essays by Bernhard Schwenk and Hilke Wagner.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783883758336 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 6/15/2004
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PETER DOIG: CHARLEY'S SPACE
Essay by Paula Van den Bosch.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775713337 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2003
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Peter Doig

Peter Doig

Edited by Judith Nesbitt. Essay by Richard Shiff.
Published by Tate/D.A.P.

Peter Doig’s highly distinctive paintings have been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide to international acclaim. Developed from film stills, footage of actual events or photographs of urban and rural environments, Doig’s paintings emanate a quiet nostalgia, triggering the lingering sense of a long forgotten memory. His work often deals with subjects at the fringes of normality, peripheral or marginal sites, unnamed places where the urban and natural worlds collide. Doig is known for his innovative exploration of the formal and thematic possibilities of landscape. In each work, he seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense and sometimes disorienting perceptual experience. His rigorous approach to surface, texture and color puts him among the most inventive painters of his generation--leaving a profound influence on young artists and contemporaries alike.
Published to accompany Doig’s major European traveling retrospective originating at Tate Britain, this extremely satisfying and lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive account of the artist’s practice over two decades of extraordinary achievement. It is the most thorough overview of his work to date. With an essay by art historian Richard Shiff, an introduction by Tate curator Judith Nesbitt and an illuminating conversation between Doig and his friend, the artist Chris Ofili, this is an enlightening survey of one of the most influential painters at work today.
Born in Edinburgh in 1959, Peter Doig was raised in Canada and spent two decades in London before moving to Trinidad, where he now lives and works. Doig graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1983 and the Chelsea School of Art in 1990. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, and was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

Peter Doig: Go West Young Man

Text by Rudi Fuchs, Hans-Werner Schmidt.
Published by Walther König, Köln

This small but excellent collection of early drawings, collages and paintings by Peter Doig, most of which have never been published before, by and large documents Doig's journey through the United States, at the age of 23, in the summer of 1982. Motifs include westerns, road movies and the urban metropolis.

Peter Doig: Studiofilmclub

Essays by Nicholas Laughlin and Alice Koegel. Foreword by Kasper Kànig.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad. He and the artist Che Lovelace run a small private cinema there, StudioFilmClub. This series of posters for movies they've shown includes paintings that refer to key scenes, quote original movie posters, and weave in broader associations with the films' content.

Peter Doig: Metropolitain

Essays by Bernhard Schwenk and Hilke Wagner.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Peter Doig paints without wanting to depict nature. Instead, his models from photography, film, books, and other media offer room for the viewer's ideas. Somehow, conspicuous citations of the individual and partly identifiable motifs produce an expressive force manifested in the final paintings. His recent work from Trinidad & Tobago is presented for the first time in this volume.

Peter Doig: Charley's Space

Essay by Paula Van den Bosch.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Viewers of a picture by Peter Doig usually experience the vague sensation of having seen a similar motif somewhere else before. This is due to the fact that Doig bases most of his pictorial compositions on models taken from the flood of media images that saturate us daily, appropriating quotations from record covers, sequences from horror movies or citations from art history. Doig's oil paintings--"harmless" only at first glance--come in alienating colors with strongly atmospheric effects. Stylistically composed of sampled painting methods, they present a thoroughly unnerving picture of nature. Doig helps himself freely to the collective archive of images, irritating his viewers by refusing to spell out what the picture is precisely about or where it takes place. His eerily familiar mountain landscapes, forest and ocean works, with their scattered human figures, seem to depict dream sequences or snapshots from stories which are bound to end badly. Published in conjunction with the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht.