RAWSON, Philip Stanley. Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire 13.1.1924 — 6.11.1995. British Artist and Art Historian. Son of Stanley Walter Rawson, an industrialist, and Phyllis Adeline Bargate. Educated at Winchester College. After war service studies at Oxford and Courtauld Institute, also Sanskrit and Indian art at S.O.A.S. Dean of School of Art and Design, University of London, retired 1984. Also taught painting, sculpture and ceramics at Royal College of Art. Himself a sculptor. Married Ruth Alice White (née Boddington), one son, and again 1949 Barbara Trent (née White, 1918–2013), one child.
A review (RHR 188, 1975) characterises his Tantra, le cute… as a poor book, full of mysticism.
Publications: Indian Painting. 169 p. 153 pl. L. – N.Y. 1961; Indian Sculpture. 159 p. N.Y. 1966.
– Erotic Art of the East. 13+380 p. N.Y. 1968; Erotic Art of India. 1977.
– The Indian sword. 12+108 p. 48 pl. L. 1968.
– Tantra. Introduction and Catalogue. 130 p. 548 ill. 1972.
– The art of Tantra. 216 p. 169 ill. L. 1973, also in French translation.
– Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstasy. 128 p. 69 pl. P. 1973, also in French translation.
– Sacred Tibet (Art and Imagination). 96 p. 1991, also in French translation.
– Other works, also on South-East Asian art.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet, photo in www.librarything.com/author/rawsonphilip.
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