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Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 1272 Collections and/or Records:

Ashanti Weights - African Goldweights: Miniature Sculptures from Ghana 1400 - 1900 / Phillips, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50797-71875
Scope and Contents Over six hundred years ago the Akan started to make brass weights for weighing gold dust, the currency of their region of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Eventually they produced the most complete three dimentional inventory of any culture in hisitory. Virtually every animal, bird, fish, or object known to them became the subject of a miniture sculpture. Human figures are represented in the activities of everyday life and sacred or courtly rituals, together with pioneer casts from nature and a wealth of abstract and ornamental designs. The artist Tom Phillips has, in the last thirty years, built up the world's most comprehensive collection of these lively and imaginative artefacts and here presents a selection of more than five hundred chosen for their artistry and interest, accompanied by a full descriptive text about their history, styles, and mode of manufacture. The facsimile edition, in an edition of 300, from Phillips' original note book from the 1970's of his pen and ink drawings...
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Aspects of Art: A Painter's Alphabet / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32329-33894
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips has created a discourse based on seventeenth and eighteenth century masterpieces in the collection at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Desmond Shawe-Taylor writes that Phillips is "the ideal creative commentator, an artist of bewildering range and imagination and a writer of elegance and insight. His text is full of surprises; or as he puts it 'chance and risk are at the heart of the artistic enterprise.' He opens up the experience of art, exploring the overlap between creating and responding. the clarity of the writing masks the complexity of the issues. Tom Phillips's questioning leads in a daunting variety of directions, but this is an essential journey of discovery for those who believe in life beyond the label."The alphabetical structure of the book, where each letter of the alphabet is drawn with poetry from "A Humument," involves the topics of Abstraction, Beauty, Conservation, Detail, Education, Frame, Grammar etc. as related to specific paintings in the Dulwich....
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Aspects of Art: A Painter's Alphabet / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27759-28882
Scope and Contents Tom Phillips has created a discourse based on seventeenth and eighteenth century masterpieces in the collection at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Desmond Shawe-Taylor writes that Phillips is "the ideal creative commentator, an artist of bewildering range and imagination and a writer of elegance and insight. His text is full of surprises; or as he puts it 'chance and risk are at the heart of the artistic enterprise.' He opens up the experience of art, exploring the overlap between creating and responding. the clarity of the writing masks the complexity of the issues. Tom Phillips's questioning leads in a daunting variety of directions, but this is an essential journey of discovery for those who believe in life beyond the label."The alphabetical structure of the book, where each letter of the alphabet is drawn with poetry from "A Humument," involves the topics of Abstraction, Beauty, Conservation, Detail, Education, Frame, Grammar etc. as related to specific paintings in the Dulwich....
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Aspects of British Book Art Today / Phillips T ; Smith P ; Erskine-Tulloch P ; Minsky R ; Bell N ; Langlands B ; Latham J., 1988

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Identifier: CC-25520-25978
Scope and Contents

Preface by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

At the ICA, Selections from Four Very Different Collections / Sozanski, Edward J.; Seille G; Phillips T; Finlay IH; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02647-2690
Scope and Contents

This review of Personal Choice: Selections from Four Alumni Collections states that "the Sackner section, installed on the second floor of the ICA, is the most intellectually challenging part of the show." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

At the ICA, Selections from Four Very Differt Collections / Sozanski, Edward J.; Phillips T; Finlay IH; Seille G; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02717-2760
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Review of the ICA exhibition "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the University of Pennsylvania in which the Sackner Archive participated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

At the Intersection of Cinema & Books / Armstrong SG ; Colp N ; Greenaway P ; Phillips T ; Ligorano N ; Snow M ; Stokes T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26291-26758
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Audience. No.1 / Christopher Carrell, editor ; Phillips T., 1973

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Identifier: CC-25318-25774
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Tom Phillips contributes an essay, "Notes on A Humument" which describes the creation of his seminal bookwork. Five pages from this book are depicted. This essay is a revision of the original that was published in London magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Auf der Brucke zwuschen Zeichen und Bild; Das Florida der Poeten: Ein Besuch im Sackner-Archiv fur visuelle und konkrete Poesie in Miami / Gunther, Thomas; Claus CF; Phillips T; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Kolar J; Apollinaire G; DeCampos A., 1994

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Identifier: CC-10521-10725
Scope and Contents

Gunther recounts a visit to the Sackner Archive in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Auto-Biography / Phillips, Tom; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38710-40620
Scope and Contents

Phillips mentions that in 1975 he met the Sackners who founded the Archive holding most of his works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Autumn / Mayer, Hansjorg, editor ; Phillips T ; Roth D ; Williams E., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06293-6408
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28525-29805
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This print, which depicts a portrait overlaid by calligraphic poetic text, was reproduced from a drawing by Phillips in conjunction with the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Art Museum in November 1997. The Sackner Archive lent several works to this exhibition and also attended a symposium which took place there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Bass Offers the Latest Word from the Sackners / Kohen, Helen L.; Phillips T; Furnival J; Furnival A; Noel A; Houedard DS; Edmonds T; Kindersley D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07990-8146
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This is an exhibition review of British Art from the Sackner Archive held at the Bass museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Benches I II & III / Phillips, Tom., 1970 - 1971

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Identifier: CC-46260-48981
Dates: 1970 - 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Benches / Phillips, Tom., 1971

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Identifier: CC-54503-52346
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Bend it like Peckham / Hoggard, Liz; Phillips T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41940-43936
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Biography] / Tom Phillips., 1980

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Identifier: CC-32707-34296
Scope and Contents

In this videotape, Phillips recounts the beginnings of his major bookwork, "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

[Biography] / Tom Phillips., 1980

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Identifier: CC-32707-34296
Scope and Contents

In this videotape, Phillips recounts the beginnings of his major bookwork, "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Bold Vision / Vetta, Sylvia; Phillips T; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45924-48626
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This is a review of Tom Phillips' Slade Lectures. The Sackners attended two of the eight and were interviewed by Vetta at one of them. She wrote the following. "At the opening I met a charming couple from Miami who have been collectors of Tom's work since they saw his 1974 exhibition. They thought it was the work of more than one artist. I asked what attracted them in addition to the diversity. They replied 'his wit and intellect.' I would add to that his sensitivity to color." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Book-Art, Anthologies, and Alternative Publishing / Kostelanetz, Richard; Phillips T; Drucker J; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44514-46664
Scope and Contents

This manuscript summarizes books and essays published by Kostelanetz over the years dealing with the subject of the title. He has dedicated the book to Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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