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 Tom Phillips gets textual at The Oxfordshire MuseumBy Mark Sheerin Tom Phillips, Ulysses - Telemachus, © the artist Tom Phillips RA – The Uncommon Reader: Fifty Years of Textual Intercourse, The Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, October 24-November 15 2009 After working with text and image for half a century, Tom Philips will display a selection of his literary art at the Art inWoodstock Visual Arts Festival. Highlights of the retrospective show include his illustrations for Plato’s Symposium and his own translations of Dante’s Inferno. Portraits of writers and sculpture are on display as well. Art History Professor Martin Kemp from nearby Oxford University says: “Tom Philips makes images from words, and words from images, with greater visual intelligence than any contemporary artist.” Words highlighted on a book page painted over with a brown pattern  Tom Phillips, Ulysses - Sirens. © the artist Visitors can see why in the latest prints from an epic project that takes each and every page of an obscure Victorian novel as the basis for a miniature artwork. A Humument, which derives from A Human Document, the title of the original book by WH Mallock, is now in its fourth edition. The Uncommon Reader: Fifty Years of Textual Intercourse offers a first chance to see fresh pages, published earlier this year. Councillor Judith Heathcoat from Oxfordshire County Council said she encouraged anyone with an interest in contemporary art “to seize the opportunity to go to the exhibition and enjoy this renowned artist's work." Admission free. Opening times 10am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday and 2pm-5pm Sunday. |
