Peter Fuller

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

Life

Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge. In a early 1970s he 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. Originally a follower of the critic John Berger, Fuller moved to the political adjusting 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, reflecting his admiration for the aesthetic principles of John Ruskin. In the spring of 1989 he was appointed art critic of The Daily Telegraph. Along with such(a) books as Art and Psychoanalysis, Fuller wrote regularly for Art Monthly UK and New Society for almost 20 years.

Fuller died in a car accident on the M4 motorway in Berkshire on 28 April 1990. 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 brand up in 1991. The Foundation hosts an annual lecture at the Tate Gallery and runs the online art magazine Art Influence.