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Phillips, Peter
Phillips, Peter (1939– ). British painter, born in Birmingham. He studied at the Birmingham College of Art, 1955–9, and at the Royal College of Art, 1959–62, and with a number of fellow RCA students— Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj—he emerged as one of the leading exponents of British Pop art at the Young Contemporaries exhibition of 1961. Typically his imagery is drawn from modern American culture—jukeboxes, pinball machines, automobiles, film star pin-ups and so on—painted in the tight, glossy manner of commercial art. However, the images are usually set into bold heraldic frameworks or fragmented into sections and reorganized, so that illusionism and abstraction are combined. The Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art (1973) describes the result as ‘a slightly pointless marriage of comic book image and Post-Cubist composition'. In 1964–6 Phillips lived in New York, then settled in Zurich.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-PhillipsPeter.html IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. 1999. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O5-PhillipsPeter.html |
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Phillips, Peter
Phillips, Peter (b Birmingham, 21 May 1939). British painter. He studied at the Royal College of Art, 1959–62, and with his fellow students Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Allen Jones, and R. B. Kitaj he emerged as one of the leading exponents of British Pop art at the Young Contemporaries exhibition in 1961. Typically his imagery is drawn from modern American culture—juke boxes, pinball machines, automobiles, film star pin-ups, and so on—painted in the tight, glossy manner of commercial art. However, the images are usually set into bold heraldic frameworks or fragmented into sections and reorganized, so that illusionism and abstraction are combined.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-PhillipsPeter.html IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-PhillipsPeter.html |
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Phillips, Peter
Phillips, Peter (1939– ). British painter. He studied at the Royal College of Art, 1959–62, and with his fellow students Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Allen Jones, and R. B. Kitaj he emerged as one of the leading exponents of British Pop art at the Young Contemporaries exhibition in 1961. Typically his imagery is drawn from modern American culture—juke boxes, pinball machines, automobiles, film star pin-ups, and so on—painted in the tight, glossy manner of commercial art. However, the images are usually set into bold heraldic frameworks or fragmented into sections and reorganized, so that illusionism and abstraction are combined.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-PhillipsPeter.html IAN CHILVERS. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-PhillipsPeter.html |
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Phillips, Peter
Phillips, Peter (b Southampton, 1953). Eng. conductor. Founded choir, Tallis Scholars, 1978, which quickly won high reputation for perfs. of works by Lassus, Gesualdo, Victoria, Josquin, Byrd, Taverner, Palestrina, and others. Toured Australia 1984, Amer. 1988. Proms début 1988 (Victoria Requiem). Author of English Sacred Music 1549–1649–(1991). Occasional writer on cricket.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 29 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 29, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-PhillipsPeter.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Phillips, Peter." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 29, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-PhillipsPeter.html |
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