Beauty: In Some Recent Art

Michael Bracewell is the author of seven novels and four works of non-fiction, including most recently Souvenir: London 1979 - 1986 (2021) and Unfinished Business (2023). He has written widely on visual art, pop music and popular culture, including Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work (National Gallery, London, 2010) and a monograph, Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton (art/books, 2020). He has published interviews with many musicians, including Nina Simone, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Lisa-Marie Presley, He was also a contributor to The Rise of David Bowie, 1972–1973, with Mick Rock and Barney Hoskyns (Taschen, 2016). A selection of Bracewell's writings on art, The Space Between was published by Ridinghouse in 2012. More recently he contributed the Introduction to a new edition of Oscar Wilde's classic essay The Critic As Artist first published in 1891 (David Zwirner Books, 2019). Charles Asprey has been working with artists since the early 1990s. He is the founder of Picpus Press, an influential arts journal, and co-founded Ridinghouse in 1995 as a publishing house. He has produced several monographs with emerging artists: Scrapheap Services by Michael Landy (1995); Teenage Pantomime by Antje Majewski (2002); Tenant of Culture (with Soft-Opening, 2020); A.B. with Amelia Barratt (2022).