Feb 8, 2015 · Tom Phillips, an Oxford-educated and unusually polymathic artist, was commissioned to undertake a portrait of the writer Iris Murdoch in 1984. On 10 May 1984 he wrote, 'I'm a fairly ruminative portraitist & with such a philosophical sitter the job should take about a …

See Iris Murdoch book covers, some of them featuring the portrait, designed by Tom Phillips.

Tom Phillips (1937-2022), Artist, writer and composer; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Artist or producer of 22 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits. Iris Murdoch was already a lecturer in philosophy and the author of Sartre, Romantic Rationalist (1953) by the time her first novel, Under the Net, was published in 1954.

Feb 5, 2002 · When Iris, the film about the late author Iris Murdoch, premiered in New York in December 2001, it was received with tears and applause. In January 2002, when it opened in the UK, director...

Before unravelling Iris Murdoch as a critical theorist, it might be an idea to stand back and consider why people have been attracted in large numbers to theory in our times.

Iris Murdoch by Tom Phillips (1937–2022), 1984–1986, from National Portrait Gallery, London

Dec 19, 2024 · But Wilson also admits in Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her that he was reluctant from the start. How would he deal with her affairs or describe the filth of her house, including its strange smell? And what about “the Irish problem”?

Thomas Anthony Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest (born 8 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2019. A member of the House of Lords since 2022, he was the member of Parliament (MP) …

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

Dec 14, 2001 · Adapted from “Elegy for Iris,” Bayley’s much-admired memoir, “Iris” deals alternately with the beginnings of the couple’s emotional attraction and with what happens when a mature relationship is...