Richard Phillips - Softcover

Dziewior, Yilmaz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775712224 ISBN 13: 9783775712224

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2002

Synopsis

Richard Phillips makes fairly realistic oil paintings of imagery borrowed from pornographic magazines, fashion rags, contemporary artworks, newspapers, and other common visual media. Bold, heavy, and unabashedly lacking in subtlety, Phillips's paintings splash nudie shots of spread-eagled women, head shots of fashion models in bizarre sunglasses and headgear, kitschy furballs of kitten cuteness, and details of art pieces like Jeff Koons's Michael Jackson (sans Bubbles) sculpture across gargantuan canvases, inevitably stunning the viewer for the time it takes to absorb such a wide swath of appropriated appropriation. Exceptional works include a spurting crotch shot entitled Negation of the Universe as a riff on Courbet's Origin of the World, and a horizontal portrait of President George Bush, bordered on either side by thick panels of hot pink, creating a brash new flag for the United States that is strangely reminiscent of Canada's.

About this title

Synopsis:

The bright, colourful oil paintings in this book show portraits of men and women, frequently nude representations borrowed from pornography, occasionally also animals or contemporary sculptures. They are all based on the appropriation of found images which the artist takes from magazines, the Internet or other mass media. The use of existing images stored in the cultural memory of the society puts Phillips into the tradition of the so-called "appropriation art" of the eighties. In some pictures, the artist consciously reveals the technique on which his photo-realistic manner of painting is based, leaving the grid necessary for the proportional transfer of the model to the canvas exposed in some places. Philips invariably makes an issue of the blurring of the borders between advertisement, lifestyle, pornography and fashion and thus questions their ambivalent relationships.

About the Author:

Richard Phillips is represented in important public and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3775712224
• ISBN 13: 9783775712224
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112