布里奇特•赖利（Bridget Riley）是现代绘画的杰出人物之一。从20世纪60年代**的黑白欧普艺术作品到20世纪90年代复杂的彩色画作，她创作严密的抽象画已有五十多年。在1992年她在伦敦海沃德美术馆（Hayward Gallery）的一次大型作品展览之际，英国广播公司广播电台播出了一个由五次对话组成的系列，每一次都是赖利和一位艺术界知名人士之间的对话。这些对话由一位艺术史学家编辑，并被收录到这本书中。赖利与尼尔•麦格雷戈（Neil MacGregor）讨论了过去的艺术和现在的艺术之间的关系；与恩斯特•冈伯里奇爵士（Ernst Gombrich）一起讨论了绘画中的色彩认知；与艺术家迈克尔•克雷格•马丁（Michael Craig-Martin）一起探讨了抽象的理论和实践；与评论家布莱恩•罗伯逊（Bryan Robertson）和安德鲁•格雷厄姆•迪克森（Andrew Graham-Dixon）她谈到了影响她作为艺术家的事件和旅行。从总体上看，这个系列很好地介绍了当今最具创造力的人才之一的作品和思想。

Bridget Riley is one of the outstanding figures of modern painting. She has pursued a course of rigorous abstraction for over fifty years, from her celebrated black and white Op Art works in the 1960s to the complex colour paintings of the 1990s. On the occasion of a major exhibition of her work in 1992 at London s Hayward Gallery, BBC Radio broadcast a series of five dialogues, each one between Riley and a well-known figure from the art world. These encounters, edited by an art historian, are contained in this book. With Neil MacGregor, Riley discusses the art of the past in relation to the art of the present; with Sir Ernst Gombrich the perception of colour in painting; with the artist Michael Craig-Martin, the theory and practice of abstraction; and with the critics Bryan Robertson and Andrew Graham-Dixon, she talks about events and travels that have influenced her as an artist. Taken as a whole, this series forms an excellent introduction to the work and ideas of one of the most creative minds of today.