Painter, writer, composer, curator, and filmmakerthe major facets of English artist Tom Phillipss uniquely varied work are finally explored and celebrated here. Known internationally for his portraits and as a pioneer of the artists book, these four volumesvisual poetry and painted music, portraiture and representation, ornament and public art, and projects and obsessionsclarify the diversity of Phillipss artistic career and show it as the consistent expression of a single and singular sensibility.