Tom Phillips: Works and Texts

Phillips, Tom; Paschal, Huston

ISBN 10: 0500974020 / ISBN 13: 9780500974025

Published by Thames & Hudson, 1993

About this Item

Unmarked. French flaps. 500 illustrations, 412 in color. 296p. Tom Phillips, an English artist, is a painter and collagist, who also works in other media. Portraits in book include Iris Murdoch, Edward Lucie-Smith, Sir Peter Hall and others. Includes the introduction to his exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery published in the 1989 and written by Bill Hurrell.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tom Phillips: Works and Texts
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500974020
• ISBN 13: 9780500974025
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 56 ounces
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Synopsis

"A maker of  memorable images...Tom Phillips has a range of sympathy which goes beyond the Anglo-American gamut...he is a quintessentialist; a man who likes to reproduce complex and difficult subjects to a magic minimum." ―John Russell, The New York Times

Tom Phillips is a multi-talented artist whose central passion is language and whose genius lies in his ability to generate images that, while concerned with the structure of ideas, also convey a rich coherence of decoration, eloquence, and sensuality. These concerns have led him into opera, ballet, and filmmaking; he is also an accomplished composer and poet, and his achievements in the production of books and prints are renowned worldwide. He inspires strong, almost fanatical enthusiasm among a coterie of devotees. Published to coincide with a touring retrospective exhibition by the Royal Academy, Tom Phillips: Works and Texts is a discriminating survey of over twenty years of the artist's oeuvre, including some of his very latest pieces. Included are pages from his past books: Dante's Inferno (Thames & Hudson, 1985) and A Humument (Thames & Hudson, 1987). Also reproduced are such representative works as Conjectured Images: Mappin Art Gallery, a series of paintings that reconstruct an entire art gallery from an old postcard; Curriculum Vitae I-XXII; Terminal Grey Paintings; and many of his images from A TV Dante. Illustrated in color throughout, this is a tribute to a living artist whose work remains as fresh and challenging as when it was first produced.

About the Author

The English painter, writer, and composer Tom Phillips curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Africa: The Art of the Continent” at the Royal Academy in 1992. He is himself a collector of African art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. His other books include The Postcard Century.