Product details

Art.No:

35480

Author / Artist:

Philips, Tom

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Keyword:

Kunst - 20 Jht. nach 1945

Binding / Picture Size:

OKart-Mappe

Publisher:

Tetrad Press

Place of publishing:

London

Year of publication:

1972

Book Details / Size:

4°, 1 Titelbl., 12 Orig.-Lithographien

Condition:

Mappe am Rücken m. Fehlstellen, Graphiken tadell. Fehlende Deckelillustration (abgelöst).

Description:

Nr. 38 von 50 Exemplaren. Im Impressum und auf jeder Lihto vom Künstler signiert.Die Serie basierte auf Brahms «Opus 45». Der Künstler (geb 1937 in Londocn) ist Mitglied der Royal Academy. «The images were derived from postcards collected by the artist in Germany and have inset texts, which are treated fragments of the novel « A human document» by W. H. Mallock. «This series of gouaches/collages was painted in 1971 after an extended stint as Gastdozent at the school of art in Kassel which at the time was being run on pseudo-Maoist lines by the students themselves. Someone somewhere had mistakenly thought I would prove a beacon of solidarity. However, I did travel to Berlin with Red-Cell No. 6 and sleep in a bed which touched the Berlin Wall. As a result of this episode, and its contrast with the deep humanism of Brahms, I used the cards I had collected to make a pictorial commentary on the German Requiem which I had been lucky enough to sing in as part of the chorus in the recording made by the Philharmonia under Otto Klemperer. The occasional irony shines through in these pictures which are also I hope not entirely without affection in their play with text, parallel text (from A Human Document needless to say), and image.»