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Bed as autobiography : a visual exploration of John Ransom Phillips by John Ransom Phillips; [with contributions by Wendy Doniger and Ariel Orr Jordan] is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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We "take to our beds" to be born and to grow, to hide and to dream, to lie alone and cling together, to come of age and make love, to create and procreate, to ail and to heal, to rest and to die. Key rites of human passage occur underneath the swathes of sheets and blanketsintimate moments where we lose ourselves and then find ourselves again. Bed As Autobiography takes the subject of one's bed as a realm where extraordinary things take place. This book traces our journey from our first bedthe embryonic sacto our final bed, the casket, through more than 100 of John Ransom Phillips's vibrant paintings. Exploring the beds we know to the ones we can only imagine, historic beds from prior lives and future beds in strangers' bodies through reincarnation, Phillips eloquently captures the essential sensuality of one's relationship to his or her bed. His paintings provide interpretive depictions of different kinds of beds, from the makeshift bed of a car seat to the glistening slope of a bathtub, and explore how the human body fits these beds. Accompanying these arresting full-color reproductions are an introductory essay by Wendy Doniger and an insightful interview with Phillips himself c

Author

John Ransom Phillips; [with contributions by Wendy Doniger and Ariel Orr Jordan]

Publisher

Chicago: Clarissa Editions: Distributed by the University Chicago Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780974663104

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14