This was the first major exhibition of Bridget Riley’s work to be seen in the United States, Australia and Japan. The exhibition comprised nearly 100 works drawn from public and private collections worldwide. An English edition of the catalogue, with an essay by Robert Kudielka, was published by the British Council. ISBN 0 950 6326 00; a bi-lingual (English/Japanese) catalogue was published by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. No ISBN number

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Glossary

  • Edition

    All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.