Peter Fuller

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Peter Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.Griffiths, Dennis (1992) The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, p.256.

In the early 1970s, Fuller wrote for the radical newspapers Black Dwarf and Seven Days, and was responsible for establishing the latter,Chenciner, Robert (February 2008) [http://www.artinfluence.com/introductiontopeterfuller "Introduction To Peter Fuller"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120704141402/http://www.artinfluence.com/introductiontopeterfuller |date=4 July 2012 }}, Art Influence (Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation). "a short-lived Marxist glossy weekly".Irwin, Robert (2011) [https://books.google.com/books?id=5HnrT6hecfkC&pg=PT182 "Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties"], London: Profile Books, p.182. This page number was derived from the source URL.) Fuller subsequently freelanced elsewhere.{{cn|date = January 2025}}

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."{{cite news | author = NYT Metro Staff | date = 1 May 1990 | title = Peter Fuller; Art Critic, 42 | newspaper = The New York Times | page = 30 (B6) | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/01/obituaries/peter-fuller-art-critic-42.html | access-date = 8 January 2024 | quote =}}{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Jonathan|title=This Man Made Britart What It Is. He Would Have Hated It|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/may/13/artsfeatures|accessdate=24 September 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=13 May 1999}} reflecting his admiration for the aesthetic principles of John Ruskin.{{cn|date = January 2025}} 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.{{cn|date = January 2025}} Originally a follower of the critic John Berger, Fuller moved to the political right in mid-life,{{when|date = January 2025}} coming into conflict with his former allies Art & Language.{{cn|date = January 2025}} The archive of Fuller's letters, journals and writings is held at the Tate Gallery in London.{{cn|date = January 2025}}

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The Peter Fuller Memorial Foundation, a registered English charity (no. 1014623), was set up in 1991.{{cn|date = January 2025}} The Foundation hosts an annual lecture at the Tate Gallery, and runs the online art magazine Art Influence.{{cn|date = January 2025}}

Fuller's spouse in the final years of his life was his wife, Stephanie.

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.{{cn|date = January 2025}}

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Peter Michael Fuller was the author of more than 15 books on aesthetics, creativity, art, and its psychology.{{cn|date = January 2025}}

• {{cite book | author = Fuller, Peter | year = 1976 | title = Die Champions: Psychoanalyse des Spitzensportlers | trans-title = The Champions: Psychoanalysis of the Top Athletes | location = Frankfurt am Main, Germany | publisher = S. Fischer | isbn = | url = | access-date = }}{{full|date=January 2025}}
• The Champions: The Secret Motives in Games and Sports, New York, NY: Urizen Books, 1977.{{what|date=January 2025}}
• The Champions: The Secret Motives in Games and Sports, London, England: Allen Lane, 1978.{{what|date=January 2025}}
• The Psychology of Gambling (with Jon Halliday), Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1977.
• Art and Psychoanalysis, London, England: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 1981; The Hogarth Press, 1988.
• Beyond the Crisis in Art, London, England: Writers and Readers, 1981.
• Robert Natkin, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981.
• Seeing Berger: A Reevaluation of Ways of Seeing, London, England: Writers & Readers, 1981.
• Aesthetics After Modernism, London, England: Writers and Readers, 1983.
• The Naked Artis: 'Art and Biology' and Other Essays, London, England: Writers & Readers, 1983.
• Images of God: The Consolations of Lost Illusions, London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1985; London: The Hogarth Press, 1990.
• The Australian Scapegoat: Towards and Antipodean Aesthetic, University of Western Australia Press, Western Australia, 1986.
• {{cite book | author = Fuller, Peter; Crompton, Susan & Cork, Richard | year = 1988 | title = Henry Moore | location = London, England | publisher = Royal Academy of Arts-Weidenfeld & Nicolson | isbn = | url = | access-date = }}{{full|date=January 2025}}
• Seeing Through Berger, The 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, (John McDonald, ed.), London: Methuen, 1993.
• {{cite book | author = Fuller, Peter | date = January 1993 | title = Henry Moore: An Interpretation | edition = 1st hardback | location = London, England | publisher = Methuen | asin = B003U86ZHQ | isbn = | url = | access-date = }}

:* {{cite book | author = Fuller, Peter | date = 1994 | title = Henry Moore: An Interpretation | editor = O'Hear, Anthony | edition = 1st paperback | location = London, England | publisher = Methuen | isbn = 9780413685100 | url = | access-date = }}

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

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• [http://www.artinfluence.com Art Influence web-site]

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