Peter Kinley

Aptly described as 'an artist's artist', Peter Kinley (1926-1988) was a well-respected painter who achieved great early success and commanded much attention during his lifetime. He was extensively reviewed during his career, but little has been published about his work since his death over twenty years ago. This book, the first substantial monograph, redresses this omission.

Catherine Kinley studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. She was a curator at Tate from 1978-2004, curating numerous exhibitions and displays of British and international art, and writing on painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance. Latterly, she headed the Tate team responsible for contemporary acquisitions. She first published on Peter Kinley in 1984 and is his widow. Marco Livingstone is an art historian and independent curator who has written extensively on Pop Art and more widely on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography. After studying at the University of Toronto and the Courtauld Institute of Art, he worked as Assistant Curator of British Art at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, as Deputy Director of the Museum of Modern Art Oxford and as Deputy Editor of the Grove Dictionary of Art before going freelance in 1991. He is the author of the acclaimed Pop Art: A Continuing History and of monographs and major exhibition catalogues on numerous artists including David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Paula Rego, Clive Barker, Stephen Buckley, Jim Dine, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal and Duane Michals. His book Hockney's Portraits and People was awarded the 2004 Sir Bannister Fletcher Award for best book on the arts. Also published by Lund Humphries are his monographs on Patrick Caulfield, Peter Blake and Richard Woods.