Alistair Rider
Alistair Rider is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. His lifelong ambition is to write a book about long-term artistic practices.
Josef Albers commenced his “Homage to the Square” paintings in 1950 and continued his series for the final twenty-six years of his life. They were composed using a simple template, which, once identified, he never modified.
Over the course of the 1960s the narratives many artists tell about their creative development take a distinct turn.