An Aesthetics without Nature, History and Home in the Kantian Sublime
MA thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Peter W. Milne
2001

page 84:  ... But Danto, as I have argued leaves out the kind of thing Phillips is chasing in his work-something closely aligned to Lyotard's notion of the sublime, of the presentation of the unpresentable. For both Phillips and Lyotard there exists a point beyond the words, and that means, beyond philosophy, beyond the reaches of ...

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"Beyond the Garden"
The Star Phoenix
Sheila Robertson
08 March 1997, C-13

... A garden is seldom just a garden. Inescapably, garden references have leafy links to the perfect landscape and sanctuary of Eden.

So it is with Leon Phillips' Garden in the Wind, a solo exhibition at Artworks. His garden paintings embrace the whole prairie, and strive to represent his memories of growing up on a farm ...

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"Phillips paints on horizon of spirituality"
The Prince George Free Press
Frank Peebles
12 June 1997, B-3

... If you see a Leon Phillips painting you know it. It's a very distinct style, full of undulating colours, cheery little circles, wispy waves of shades and shadows and some of the happiest titles in any art exhibition. Leon is no dour dabbler with names like "In the Sweet By and By" or "Glory for Dappled Things" colouring his array of recent works at the Prince George Art Gallery. "He is definitely coming out of the post-painterly abstraction movement....

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