Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips
United States merchant mariner who was captain of the MV Maersk Alabama when it was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. He wrote the book called A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea about his experience.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth16 May 1955
CityWinchester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.
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I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.
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'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
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Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
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When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
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When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.