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Hardcover, 240 x 280 mm, 144 pages, richly illustrated. EN. *NEW. ISBN 9781848222632. The first illustrated monograph to consider the entire career to date of a major US painter Taaffe's paintings are in the collections of a wide range of public museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid John Yau's perceptive text is based on many conversations with Philip Taaffe and access to the artist's extensive archive, as well as long familiarity with the work itself This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage, stencils, gouache, chine-coll , marbling, acrylic, enamel, watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.