Phillips - Works and Texts

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Thom Phillips - Works and Texts.

with an introduction by Hustan Paschal.

Tom Phillips CBE RA (born 25 May 1937[1]) is an English artist. He was born in London, where he continues to work. He is a painter, printmaker and collagist.

"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.

London 1992 1ste., 296p., With 500 illustrations, 415 in colour. 23,5 x 30,5 x 3 cm. Heel klein stukje uit de stofomslag. Hardcover + d.j. neat, solid antiquarian condition. Binnenwerk en binding zijn uitstekend, schoon en strak. De papieren stofomslag heeft een heel klein stukje eraf (zie foto's), verder een prachtig bewaard gebleven exemplaar

Bring the ultimate visual bible of one of Britain's most brilliantly eccentric modern masters into your workspace and let his masterful marriage of texts and images transform your book collection!

Voor de liefhebber van moderne kunst, grafisch design en conceptuele poëzie: dit omvangrijke en rijk geïllustreerde Engelse meesterwerk (296 pag.) biedt een diepgaand overzicht van ruim 20 jaar werk van de iconische kunstenaar Tom Phillips. Het boek is een waar visueel spektakel met maar liefst 500 afbeeldingen (waarvan 415 in kleur), inclusief fragmenten uit zijn legendarische uitgaven A Humument en Dante's Inferno. Een prachtige en gezochte eerste hardcover-editie (Thames & Hudson, 1992) met stofomslag (de omslag heeft een heel klein plekje, het boek zelf is in mooie staat)