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.[citation needed]

Early life and education

Peter Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Career

In the early 1970s, Fuller wrote for the radical newspapers Black Dwarf and Seven Days, and was responsible for establishing the latter, "a short-lived Marxist glossy weekly". 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." 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.

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

The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, a registered English charity (no. 1014623), was set up in 1991 by Stephanie Fuller, the Appointee and a Trustee of the Foundation, following his death, and dissolved in 2017. The Foundation organised the annual Peter Fuller Memorial Lecture for nearly two decades, with events held at institutions including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, University College London, the Slade School of Fine Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Foundation was formally constituted by trust deed on 23 September 1992. A 2015 deed records Stephanie Fuller as the Founder, together with original trustees Roger Scruton, Anthony O’Hear, Charles Rycroft and John Bellamy. The same deed records that the Founder held the power to appoint new trustees under clause 10(b) of the trust deed, and that later trustees included Roy Oxlade, Sylvia Leda Turner and Laurence Ruskin Fuller.

Personal life

Fuller's spouse in the final years of his life was his wife, Stephanie (née Burns), an Australian-British sculptor and painter.

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. He is buried in Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, UK.[citation needed]

Books

Peter Michael Fuller was the author of more than 15 books on aesthetics, creativity, art, and its psychology.[citation needed]

  • Fuller, Peter (1994). O'Hear, Anthony (ed.). Henry Moore: An Interpretation (1st paperback ed.). London, England: Methuen. ISBN 9780413685100.

Films

Peter Fuller made a number of documentaries with Mike Dibb, including;

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 NYT Metro Staff (1 May 1990). "Peter Fuller; Art Critic, 42". The New York Times. p. 30 (B6). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Griffiths, Dennis (1992) The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, p.256.
  3. ↑ Chenciner, Robert (February 2008) "Introduction To Peter Fuller" Archived 4 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Art Influence (Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation).
  4. ↑ 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.)
  5. ↑ Jones, Jonathan (13 May 1999). "This Man Made Britart What It Is. He Would Have Hated It". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2012.