Dimensions
251 x 308 x 31mm
A lavish monograph chronicling the artist's life and work. American artist Elizabeth Peyton takes her inspiration from those around her, literally and figuratively. A painter of people, she is known for her intimate portraits of figures familiar to her, ranging from friends, to historical figures, to celebrities. Her work is characterised by an intense personal component, the subject appearing always as an intimate of both audience and artist. Peyton's ability to draw the viewer in, and to create personal relationship between subjects and viewers in her paintings, is particularly fascinating in an increasingly impatient and impersonal culture, where images are ubiquitous and ephemeral, disseminated haphazardly through any medium that will let them.
