Phillips, Tom 1937-

Tomorrow's crises today : the humanitarian impact of urbanisation by Chris Horwood( )

6 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Explores the effect of living in today's cities has on the millions of people who already live in metropolises, and those who are daily being drawn into them from the countryside, by the millions. Using 10 cities from around the world as illustrations of different crises that face today's urban poor, this publication seeks to emphasise the urgent needs of many in the city. It is been said that the real battles to achieve the Millennium Development Goals will be fought in the cities.--Publisher's description

Africa, the art of a continent : 100 works of power and beauty( Book )

8 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 754 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inspired by a landmark exhibition of art on view at the Guggenheim Museum, this book provides an accessible overview to one of the world's great art traditions. Africa is the birthplace of human civilization, and produced some of humankind's earliest art objects. This book presents masterworks organized into seven geographical areas - Ancient Egypt and Nubia, eastern Africa, southern Africa, central Africa, western Africa and the Guinea Coast, Sahel and Savanna, and Northern Africa. Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone provide stunning proof of the aesthetic strength of African traditions, even in the case of utilitarian works that were not made to be "art". In some cases, the very concept of art was foreign to their makers, as Kwame Anthony Appiah explains in his essay. In an epic overview of Africa's earliest history, Ekpo Eyo makes a strong case for dispensing with the popular misconception that northern Africa, Northwestern Africa and Egypt - is somehow not an integral part of the African continent. Peter Mark addresses the religious and cultural interaction between northern and sub-Saharan Africa during the spread of Islam and Christianity. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the reception of African art in the West in the early part of this century, outlining how these works - like most everything from Africa - provoked "a certain anxiety" in the Western imagination. Suzanne Preston Blier elucidates the myths surrounding the art of Africa. And an international team of scholars explores the significance of each of the objects reproduced. The volume is rounded off with a selected bibliography

Africa : the art of a continent by Royal Academy of Arts (London)( Book )

24 editions published in 1995 in English and German and held by 685 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Catalogus bij een expositie van Afrikaanse kunst

A humument : a treated Victorian novel by Tom Phillips( Book )

43 editions published between 1970 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"After its first publication in book form in 1980, A Humument rapidly became a cult classic. This edition follows its predecessors by incorporating revisions and re-workings: a hundred pages are replaced by new versions. As well as marking Tom Phillips's sixtieth birthday year, it celebrates an enterprise which is now itself thirty years old and still actively a work in progress." "In a unique fiction, word and image are blended with a richness scarcely seen since Blake. The artist writes, "I took a forgotten Victorian novel found by chance. I plundered, mined, and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents and surrealist catastrophes which seemed to lurk within its wall of words. As I worked on it, I replaced the text I'd stripped away with visual images of all kinds. It began to tell and depict, amongst other memories, dreams and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of love's casualties." "Within this small format Tom Phillips has made the arts connect, bringing Wagner's idea of "a comprehensive work of art" to pocketbook proportions."--Jacket

The postcard century : 2000 cards and their messages by Tom Phillips( Book )

18 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Postcard Century shows and tells the story of the last hundred years in its own words and images. Two thousand picture postcards and their messages give a living account of the daily existence of people and a vivid glimpse of what mattered to them, pleased them, shocked or amused them via the cards they chose to send." "The artist and writer Tom Phillips provides a commentary on the visual material, giving a perceptive and thoughtful context for the messages. Here is a glimpse into the hearts and minds of the people who lived through the most turbulent century in our history."--BOOK JACKET

Music in art : through the ages by Tom Phillips( Book )

9 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Art loves music: From the tombs of Ancient Egypt to the late 20th century, painting and sculpture have played their variations on musical themes."--BOOK JACKET. "Tom Phillips examines masterpieces from the history of the visual arts that have been inspired by music. In a series of colourful images we meet the music makers - the men and women who, in the act of playing and listening to music, have provided rich subject matter for artists throughout the centuries."--BOOK JACKET. "The long affair between these arts had its passionate moments. The orchestral angels of the Renaissance and the seraphic choristers of the Baroque yield to the domestic music making of the masters of the Dutch interior. The pastoral concerts of Venetian and French artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries give way to the Impressionists and the still lifes and soloists of Cubism. Finally, the musical abstractions of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky lead to the often ironic or iconoclastic references to music in the experimental art of the end of this century."--BOOK JACKET. "Tom Phillips seeks out these colourful meetings between the sister arts and spins an intriguing web of anecdote and interpretation to link them through the ages. As an artist, he understands how pictures are made and as a writer he can convey this understanding with humour and clarity. Since he is also a composer in his own right his insights have the added value of musical authenticity as well as artistic authority."--BOOK JACKET. "Each of the fifty short essays focuses on a particular work of art or contrasts two or more approaches to a similar theme. A diverse range of artists is featured, including Rembrandt, Leonardo, Veronese, Titian, Caravaggio, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso. We are introduced to composers who are painters, and painters who are accomplished musicians, and learn how their thoughts can often provide the key to understanding musical and artistic styles."--Jacket

Dante, the Inferno by Dante Alighieri( Visual )

9 editions published between 1993 and 2016 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Radical, new visual techniques are used to bring the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno to the screen. The film illustrates and complements Dante's text, re-creating a 600 year-old work as a late twentieth century post-modern masterpiece. Eminent scholars in visual sidebars interpret Dante's metaphors and symbolism

Dante's Inferno : the first part of the Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri( Book )

9 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Africa : the art of a continent( Book )

14 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Ranging from the oldest known human artifact, circa 1.6 million BC, to pieces made within living memory, the objects collected in this volume reflect a continent of enormous cultural and historical scope. Arranged chronologically within seven geographical sections, it offers an array of sculptures in wood, bronze, stone and gold as well as rock paintings, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewellery and textiles culled from private and public collections around the world. Commentary by renowned scholars illuminates the cultural and historical significance of these pieces and in-depth authoritative texts highlights critical aspects of each region. Together these words and images take readers on artistic grand tour through a continent of unparalleled diversity and towards the thrilling discovery of not one Africa, but many"

We are the people : postcard from the collection of Tom Phillips by Tom Phillips( Book )

9 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 116 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The postcards illustrated offer both a fascinating glimpse into history at a time of great social change and a visual record of British society. Essays by Tom Phillips, Elizabeth Edwards and James Fenton establish the place of the postcard portrait within the genre of photographic portraiture, explore the aesthetic and emotive appeal of postcard portraits, and offer the anthropologist's response to their language of signs and symbols. Intriguing, humorous and at times haunting, We Are The People presents an original approach to portraiture, indispensable to all those interested in photography, the social historian and general reader alike."--BOOK JACKET