Peter Michael Fuller (31 August 1947 – 28 April 1990) was a British art critic and magazine editor.

Life

Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.[1] In the early 1970s he wrote for the radical newspapers Black Dwarf and Seven Days,[1] and was responsible for establishing the latter,[2] "a short-lived Marxist glossy weekly".[3] Fuller subsequently freelanced elsewhere. Originally a follower of the critic John Berger, Fuller moved to the political right in mid-life, coming into conflict with his former allies Art & Language.

Peter Fuller was the founding editor of the art magazine Modern Painters, launched in 1987,[4] reflecting his admiration for the aesthetic principles of John Ruskin. In the spring of 1989 he was appointed art critic of The Daily Telegraph.[1] Along with such books as Art and Psychoanalysis, Fuller wrote regularly for Art Monthly UK and New Society for nearly 20 years.

Fuller died in a car accident on the M4 motorway in Berkshire on 28 April 1990.[5] Peter Fuller is buried in Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, UK.

The archive of Fuller's letters, journals and writings is held at the Tate Gallery in London. The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, a registered English charity (no.1014623), was set up in 1991. The Foundation hosts an annual lecture at the Tate Gallery and runs the online art magazine Art Influence.

Books

  • Die Champions: Psychoanalyse d. Spitzensportlers, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1976.
  • The Champions: The Secret Motives in Games and Sports, Urizen Books, 1977; London: Allen Lane, 1978
  • The Psychology of Gambling (with Jon Halliday), Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1977
  • Art and Psychoanalysis, London and New York: Writers and Readers, 1981; The Hogarth Press, 1988
  • Beyond the Crisis in Art - Writers and Readers;, 1981.
  • Robert Natkin, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981
  • Seeing Berger: A Reevaluation of Ways of Seeing, Writers & Readers, 1981
  • Aesthetics After Modernism, Writers and Readers, 1983.
  • The Naked Artis: 'Art and Biology' and Other Essays, Writers & Readers Publishing, 1983
  • Images of God: The Consolations of Lost Illusions, London: Chatto and Windus, 1985; London: The Hogarth Press, 1990
  • The Australian Scapegoat: Towards and Antipodean Aesthetic, University of Western Australia Press, Western Australia, 1986
  • Henry Moore, (with Susan Crompton and Richard Cork), London: Royal Academy of Arts / Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988
  • Seeing Through Berger, 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, (edited by John McDonald), London: Methuen, 1993
  • Henry Moore: An Interpretation, Methuen, 1994.

Films

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

  1. 1 2 3 Dennis Griffiths The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p.256
  2. ↑ Robert Chenciner "Introduction To Peter Fuller" Archived 4 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Art Influence (Peter Fuller Memorial Foundsation), February 2008
  3. ↑ Robert Irwin "Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties", London: Profile Books, 2011, p.182 (page number taken from the http address.)
  4. ↑ Jones, Jonathan (13 May 1999). "This man made Britart what it is. He would have hated it". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Peter Fuller; Art Critic, 42", New York Times, 1 May 1990
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