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Description for Tom Phillips
Paperback. "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 Num Pages: 296 pages, 500 illustrations, 415 in colour. BIC Classification: ACX; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 235 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1888.
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 film-making; he is also an accomplished composer and poet, and his achievements in the production of books and prints are renowned worldwide.
Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition organised by the Royal Academy, Tom Phillips: Works and Texts is a discriminating survey of over twenty years of his work, ... Read more
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 film-making; he is also an accomplished composer and poet, and his achievements in the production of books and prints are renowned worldwide.
Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition organised by the Royal Academy, Tom Phillips: Works and Texts is a discriminating survey of over twenty years of his work, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500974025
SKU
V9780500974025
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Ref
99-10
About Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips CBE RA is a painter, writer, translator and composer. Collaborators include the filmmaker Peter Greenaway (A TV Dante), the novelist Salman Rushdie (Merely Connect) and the composer Tarik O'Regan (Heart of Darkness). Informing Phillips's work for half a century, A Humument has appeared in many guises beyond book and exhibition form, including operatically in Irma, digitally as an ... Read more
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