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Jim Shaw (b
Bestiaries date back to medieval times when religious instruction promoted the study and interpretation of animal life
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Placing the work within its wider cultural and historical context
Philip Taaffe pioneered in the UK byThis 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,