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The book consists of notes and sketches for Curriculum Vitae paintings. This book with blank pages bound by Richard Minsky was given to Phillips on his 50th birthday by Minsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a varient of Curriculum Vitae VII which was exhibited in the Phillips retrospective at the Royal Academy in London 1992. Phillips' use of "Words-words! Make me a rose" in this painting is derived from page 353 in the original and first revised edition of "A Humument." The poetic autobiographic statement of Phillips' elementary school days was composed by Phillips himself. The underlying text of Phillips' poem depicts the word "Llareggub." In 1954, the BBC broadcast Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood, apparently unaware of the fact that the name of the fictional Welsh town Llareggub described in the play was an ingenious literary back-slang creation, namely, "bugger all" spelled backwards. The taboo nature of "bugger" is marked by the fact that Brophy and Partridge felt it necessary to dash the word in their 1931 compilation of military slang. Up until 1934, one could be fined or imprisoned for saying or writing "bugger" and has even been called "one of the most...

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The collages constitute the original artwork of illustrations for the book by Malcolm Bradbury "Cuts" which is held by Sackner Archive. Cuts refers to U.K. governmental 'cuts' of the budget. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips designed the dust jacket and provided 12 illustrations for the text. The original artwork is held by the Sackner Archive. The British trade edition book has larger dimensions than the American one. Cuts refers to U.K. governmental 'cuts' of the budget. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips designed the dust jacket and provided 12 illustrations for the text. The original artwork is held by the Sackner Archive. The British trade edition book has larger dimensions than the American one. Cuts refers to U.K. governmental 'cuts' of the budget. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Iris Murdoch's obituary is illustrated with her portrait painted by Tom Phillips. Phillips also designed and illustrated several dust jackets for her novels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover illustration is from The Divine Comedy, a verse translation by Phillips published by Thames & Hudson in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The theme of the print, Phillips' Dante Diary, is presented as a montage of text and images selected from the original drawings and collages. The strongest image in the upper right side of the print is a drawing of a skeletal-like head which Tom Phillips describes as "Head as House of Memory." It is fashioned of rooms twisting and turning inside a skull, reminiscent of Escher, with several running or falling figures. The head is duplicated in a much smaller version elsewhere on the print surface. Other themes pictorially and typographically represented include Dante in Brazil - Copacabana Beach, Dante a Milan and Dante in Botswana. The upper right side of the print contains architectural drawings that resemble Phillips' complex castle prints. The drawings are noted as "Seven sided house of folly." Further images include a drawing of the artist's hand writing the Italian text of the Inferno, a photograph of Tom Phillips at Dante's tomb in Ravenna, a page from "A Human Document," a...

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This 36th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante & Domesday Looking for a Sign." It consists of four rows of seven painted black geometric symbols. Under each one Phillips has written the descriptive name, for example churches, market, park vineyard, royal land and sheep. This may be related to the symbols used by hobos in America.The paper used by Phillips for this page has erased graphite drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 37th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Forms a Company" and refers to KGP Productions - A TV Dante. This company title, Kassander Greenaway Phillps, is both collaged and painted onto the page. Phillips' handwritten notes on the right top of the page refer to the casting of a A TV Dante film made with Peter Greenaway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 38th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante at the RA." The main element on the page is Phillips' drawing for a book label.He writes, "Since I am the chairman of the RA library it falls to me to design the book label. Also Peter and I plan to use the cast collection, at present arranged on musty shelves, as a basis for Canto IV meeting with the heroes of past times.Time runs out and we have not yet made the shoot." On this page there are also found elements with fleur de lys designs, two on paper and one a photograph. Phillips writes, "Maurice, taking layers of wallpaper from above the sink downstairs reveals the original wall papers to have been a pattern of red fleur de lys. amazing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 39th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in NY - BRU & Rouen". Phillips writes, "November. In New York delivering a copy to Richard Minsky for onward sale. Back via Brussels for lecturette & show of Dante pages. Toni Zwicker, who didn't want to buy the book when it was cheap has now bought two copies via Richard. News of the impending show in Miami where Dante will feature with some other things of mine, inc. globe etc. The curator wants to make a touring one-man show as well. " Phillips also writes that "Kees rings to say that at long last the money is gone through and we can make contracts: can anything be slower than this TV business? One loses so much of the original momentum." The collage elements on this page consist of a shadowy picture of what may be an open page of the Dante book, printed reviews and announcements of Phillips' presentations and an airline boarding pass. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 49th new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Sings Again." Several reviews, collaged onto this page mention the PeterGreenaway/Tom Phillips' A TV Dante as a "significant...autonomous art production." A newspaper lists the showing of A TV Dante and describes it as follows: " Six hundred years ago the great Italian poet Dante wrote of his imaginary visit to the underworld and produced a vivid list of the vices and crimes of his age, which scarcely needs changing today. Film-maker Peter Greenaway and painter Tom Phillips have collaborated on a modern version of 'The Inferno', using the latest developments in computer graphics, film and video techniques. In this first episode (Canto 5 of 34) Dante, guided by Virgil, enters the second circle in the descending spiral of Hell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 41st new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Visits Crete Again." The center section contains a rubbing with the name Erich Hell Gefr 4.1 1918 + 215 1941, most likely from a grave stone.The found papers include entrance tickets to a museum, remnants of hotel receipts, partial photograph of a landscape with a cross and a ticket to the airline departure lounge. Phillips writes, "departure lounge as image of vestibule of Hell for Canto III." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This 42nd new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in Belfast." The page is collaged with a map of Belfast. The center section contains a drawing of a helicopter that casts a large shadow over the map of Belfast. An invitation from the Ulster Museum of a private viewing of "Two Portraits" is collaged in the upper right hand corner. One of the portraits is of Iris Murdoch by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This 43rd new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante in Miami Beach Again." On this page, Phillips visits with Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami.The center contains a black and white announcement picture of Ruth and Marvin standing in front of Phillips' "Artchive" painting.To the left is a color version of the painting from the Bass Museum exhibition invitation. Phillips writes,"The big Artchive painting looks very good though it needs a coat of varnish now. Excellently laid out show done by Michael Peobble whom I had a couple of meals with (and his wife). Very pleasant dinner after the show at Ruth's elegant women's club." At the top center of the page is a table seating card for Tom Phillips for a party he describes as follows, "Another Dantesque event: a party given by the Johnsons Baby Powder heiress on an island at a golf club stiff with diamonds with M & R & few other jews or welshmen. Terrible food and the hostess finally not present. I sat among...