Tom Phillips

A Humument

A Treated Victorian Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"One of the most winning and witty artistic experiments of recent time." - Washington Post

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• 6th edition
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 183mm x 131mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780500519035
• ISBN-10: 050051903X
• Artikelnr.: 45041725

Autorenporträt

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 app and aurally, read by the artist himself. Tom Phillips is also an ardent Africanist. His groundbreaking exhibition `Africa: The Art of a Continent¿ at the Royal Academy in 1992 attracted huge crowds and enthusiastic reviews. He is himself a collector of African Art, specializing in the arts of Ghana and the Ivory Coast.