The Dialectical Phoenix
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Charting a path of 'hope and conviction through personal adversity' The Dialectical Phoenix is a project that arose from the embers of illness, and soars on a flight of celebration. A collaboration between surrealists John Welson, and John Richardson, this evocative work underpins the spirit of collaboration, and the potential of art & poetry to empower us, even in the darker moments.
John Welson
John Welson has participated in over 300 exhibitions in both private and public galleries around the world since the early 1970's.From the late 1960's to the early 1990's he painted Figurative Surrealist Paintings, exhibiting with artists as diverse as Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud and Damian Hirst. Since the mid 1990's he has produced Lyrical Abstracted Paintings inspired by the landscape of his native Wales.
John Richardson
John Richardson is Professor of Art History, Musicology and Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten (1999) and An Eye for Music: Popular Music and the Audiovisual Surreal (2012). He co-edited several collections, including Essays on Sound and Vision (2007), The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013).
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