Peter Fuller
Peter Michael Fuller (31 August 1947 – 28 April 1990) was a British art critic, documentarian, author (of more than 15 books), and founder and editor of the magazine Modern Painters.[1][citation needed]
Early life and education
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Peter Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[2]
Career
[edit]In the early 1970s, Fuller wrote for the radical newspapers Black Dwarf and Seven Days,[2] and was responsible for establishing the latter,[3] "a short-lived Marxist glossy weekly".[4] Fuller subsequently freelanced elsewhere.[citation needed]
Fuller was the founder and founding editor of the quarterly magazine Modern Painters, launched in 1987, a work "principally... bring[ing] attention to British artists."[1][5] reflecting his admiration for the aesthetic principles of John Ruskin.[citation needed] In the spring of 1989 he was appointed art critic of The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, the former of which carried his final review on Sunday, 29 April 1990.[1][2]
Fuller wrote regularly for Art Monthly UK and New Society for nearly 20 years, alongside publishing such books as Art and Psychoanalysis.[citation needed] Originally a follower of the critic John Berger, Fuller moved to the political right in mid-life,[when?] coming into conflict with his former allies Art & Language.[citation needed] The archive of Fuller's letters, journals and writings is held at the Tate Gallery in London.[citation needed]
The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation
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The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, a registered English charity (no. 1014623), was set up in 1991.[citation needed] The Foundation hosts an annual lecture at the Tate Gallery, and runs the online art magazine Art Influence.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit]Fuller's spouse in the final years of his life was his wife, Stephanie.[1]
Peter Fuller died at age 42 in a single-vehicle car accident on the M4 motorway in Berkshire, England on 28 April 1990, an accident that also injured three others, including his wife and 3-year-old son.[1] He is buried in Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, UK.[citation needed]
Books
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Peter Michael Fuller was the author of more than 15 books on aesthetics, creativity, art, and its psychology.[citation needed]
- Fuller, Peter (1976). Die Champions: Psychoanalyse des Spitzensportlers [The Champions: Psychoanalysis of the Top Athletes]. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: S. Fischer.[full citation needed]
- The Champions: The Secret Motives in Games and Sports, New York, NY: Urizen Books, 1977.[clarification needed]
- The Champions: The Secret Motives in Games and Sports, London, England: Allen Lane, 1978.[clarification needed]
- The Psychology of Gambling (with Jon Halliday), Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1977.
- Art and Psychoanalysis, London, England: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1981; The Hogarth Press, 1988.
- Beyond the Crisis in Art, London, England: Writers and Readers, 1981.
- Robert Natkin, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981.
- Seeing Berger: A Reevaluation of Ways of Seeing, London, England: Writers & Readers, 1981.
- Aesthetics After Modernism, London, England: Writers and Readers, 1983.
- The Naked Artis: 'Art and Biology' and Other Essays, London, England: Writers & Readers, 1983.
- Images of God: The Consolations of Lost Illusions, London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1985; London: The Hogarth Press, 1990.
- The Australian Scapegoat: Towards and Antipodean Aesthetic, University of Western Australia Press, Western Australia, 1986.
- Fuller, Peter; Crompton, Susan & Cork, Richard (1988). Henry Moore. London, England: Royal Academy of Arts-Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[full citation needed] - Seeing Through Berger, The Claridge Press, 1988.
- Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace, Chatto and Windus, 1988.
- Left High and Dry: the Posturing of the Left Establishment, The Claridge Press, 1990.
- Marches Past, The Hogarth Press, 1991.
- Peter Fuller's Modern Painters: Reflections on British Art, (John McDonald, ed.), London: Methuen, 1993.
- Fuller, Peter (January 1993). Henry Moore: An Interpretation (1st hardback ed.). London, England: Methuen. ASIN B003U86ZHQ.
- Fuller, Peter (1994). O'Hear, Anthony (ed.). Henry Moore: An Interpretation (1st paperback ed.). London, England: Methuen. ISBN 9780413685100.
Films
[edit]Peter Fuller made a number of documentaries with Mike Dibb, including;
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow - art and psychoanalysis with Robert Natkin and Peter Fuller, 50 minutes, BBC, 1979
- Fields of Play - series exploring the role of play in every area of our lives from childhood and learning to gambling and war games, 5x60 minutes, BBC, 1979
- Naturally Creative - wide-ranging film essay on the origins of human creativity, 90 minutes, Channel 4, 1986/7
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e NYT Metro Staff (1 May 1990). "Peter Fuller; Art Critic, 42". The New York Times. p. 30 (B6). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Griffiths, Dennis (1992) The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, p.256.
- ^ Chenciner, Robert (February 2008) "Introduction To Peter Fuller" Archived 4 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Art Influence (Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation).
- ^ Irwin, Robert (2011) "Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties", London: Profile Books, p.182. This page number was derived from the source URL.)
- ^ Jones, Jonathan (13 May 1999). "This Man Made Britart What It Is. He Would Have Hated It". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
