Traian Alexandru Filip: His Art and Life

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Summary: Etchings and more
Review: This fascinating book presents in loving detail the work of an artist who subtly commingles beauty and horror, angels and beasts. Traian Filip was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1955 and experienced the repression of the Ceausecu regime. In 1989, he arrived in New York and then settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where his work took on a new grace, but with an evident loneliness for his family in Romania. He took his own life in 1993. For most of his life he concentrated on intaglio etchings, later producing paintings on found materials. The book poignantly relates his personal history to his artistic production. It gives exellent renditions of many of his beautiful and intriguing etchings and paintings.