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A superbly illustrated study of the paintings and collages of British surrealist Richard Shirley Smith.

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A bizarre imagination married to a craft that falls little short of the sublime placed Richard Shirley Smith outside the artistic mainstream from the start. Over the past 40 years, in his life and his art, he has inhabited a world of fabulous curiosities and transformations, supplied by the idiosyncrasies of a scholarly and labyrinthine mind. He revels in elaborate settings, crumbling Italianate architecture, and romantic decay. Strange objects, veiled statues, insects, and ambiguous beasts pose like actors on a stage. This splendid monograph contains 150 color reproductions of his paintings and collages. These are enhanced by essays that lead the reader more deeply into a profoundly fascinating and beautiful theater of the imagination.

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Richard Shirley Smith was born in Hampstead and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and in Rome. His commissioned trompe l'oeil murals grace many stately and humbler homes in London and elsewhere. But this book brings together the paintings and collages (and some of the wood engravings) he made to please himself and which represent his major output - much of it now in private hands and inaccessible.

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  • PublisherJohn Murray Pubs Ltd
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0719563321
  • ISBN 13 9780719563324
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages160

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