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This forty-fourth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Down Under." It includes a map of Australia with Phillips' itinerary drawn in green ink. The trip, according to his 1988 planner started in Sydney on March 8th, continued to Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin. He departed Australia on April 7th. Phillips provides a description of events and people he met on notes written on the map. He also collaged onto the page cards from Aristotle's Restaurant ("If in Sydney don't eat here!"), the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Bank (with the name Toge, protagonist of A Humument), Adelaide Festival and a card from Francesca da Rimini ("She seems to be some kind of punk performance artist"). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This forty-fifth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Down UnderII - In the Penal Settlement" It includes a photogrpah of Phillips standing in a country road with a sign to his left stating Beatrice Hill. Collaged fragments of a print of the tower of purgatory, a singular mountain island and a diagram of the universe are included on the page. An introduction to Phillips' visit by Eileen Starke reads, " I am pleased to introduce this exhibition of one hundred and thirty eight illustrations to Dante's 'Inferno' by the artist Tom Phillips. These are being shown for the first time in Austalia. I was delighted that Tom took up my suggestion to bring his Dante to Australia especially as this indicates he is now convinced that Australia is ready for Dante. On this subject he wrote: 'Australia is a country that Dante knew nothing about and is situated roughly where he and his Ulysses thought Purgatory was: in the 'Inferno' Ullysses catches a glimpse of a great...

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This forty-sixth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Meets Harry in Hilversum." The left side contains two columns of names for casting Dante and Virgil for TV Dante. Most of the names are crossed out.The center of the page consists of rough sketches and the right side contains an April calendar of Phillips' schedule. About Hilversum Phillips writes, "Hulversum now a huge complex.I remember tuning in as a teenager to an exotic radio staion." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This forty-seventh new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "To Begin at the Beginning." The main portion of this page is covered with the dust jacket of a novel titled "The Dark Wood" by Frances Turk." Phrases relevant to Dante's Inferno are circled including Paradise for Two, Forgotten Paradise and the dark wood came between. Phillips notes that on May24 he will be 51 years old, and that May27th is the target day for 20 Sites. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This forty-eighth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Under the Good Augustus." The left side of the page contains torn pieces from an English newspaper.The top one reads,"Dante would feel at home in the 1980s." The lower section contains a head of Dante with other prominent heads.Six small drawings by Phillips are on the vertical center of the page .A calendar for June 1988 is on the right side of the page and contains the following comments:" at the office of Bob Peck reading through Cantos I - VIII. Exciting to hear a completely new voice." On Monday June 20th, "Some very good footage as we watch the first lot." On the 23rd," Lunch at the Garrick Club with Sir John Gielgud (who said the verse was beautiful)!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This forty-nineth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Marching Song for Circle 4." The left side of the page contains Phillip's monthly plan for August including a note "TP's debut as camerman" on August 14 and 15. The right and the lower sides of the page contain collaged elements of Phillips' circular designs "Why Save Why Spend." He has also composed several verses of poetry related to loss of money and how "time squanders us down in hell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fiftieth new series collage page of the Dante Diary consists of seven lines of layered texts, letters and signs separated by yellow and rose colored horizontal lines. There is an orange painted cross from corner to corner.The texts cannot be read. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-first new series collage page of the Dante Diary consists of six collaged pictures of a running dog from the studies of Muybridge. The image of the dog in the lower right corner is painted yellow. The word VELTRO is painted in the middle of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-second new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante at the Palace." On the left side of the page is Phillips' monthly plan for September 88. On Thursday the 8th he writes that he "made set of moving images of a dog from Muybridge for hound VELTRO. Had to do this since the actual greyhound footage that we had was copyright and they wanted 500 pounds for it. We then asked someone to make a film especially but it turned out to look like a home movie....." The remainder of the page consists of scraps of Italian texts, a map of London and large black ink handwriting.The revised title of the film is Dante: The Inferno - KGP Productions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-third new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Words Words Words." The entire page is covered varying colored letters of works painted six times over the collaged surface of the page. The center section contains the typed text of Canto VII Drill Song.The other collaged pieces contain printed and handwritten texts from the Inferno. Collaged in the lower right corner is a handwritten placecard for Sir J.Gielgud, who was participating in the filming of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-fourth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "So Back and Forth and Up and Down They Go." The right side of the page contains Phillips' monthly plan for October 1988 as work continues on the filming.The right side of the page is collaged with taxi, courier, bus and airline tickets. The center of the page contains a print of a nude man walking down the steps from a study by Muybridge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-fifth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Goes Dutch." Phillips collaged ephemera from his stay in Rotterdam and includes an annoucement from the Stedelijk Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-sixth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Return of Paolo (& Francesco)." Phillips continues to work on the Inferno film and adds collaged annoucements featuring Dante from a restaurant in Florence, a collaged drawing from Pisa and small found pictures of Dante and Beatrice. His monthly plan for November is collaged on the right side of the page. At the end of the month he writes, "Working on tidying up many loose ends & joining the seven cantos together." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-seventh new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Returns to Pinewood & Bill Saint." Pinewood is a film editing suite. The left side of this page is Phillips' monthly plan for July 1988. The right side is collaged with an advertisement for The Palace, a video post production house. Phillips' days are filled with recording and editing for the Inferno film production. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-eighth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Dante Sees the Light." The right hand side of this page contains Phillips' monthly plan for December 88 in which he writes that he is at Channel 4 for showing of Cantos I to VII. Also back to Palace for "still tidying up and putting cantos numbers on (in Roman numerals!! Small battle won) Peter's Bee Gun provides mist for Canto VIII. work abandoned until 1989.........." This page also contains a partial letter handwritten in Italian from Centro Dantesco in Ravenna Italy, a picture of Muybridge's stepping man and part of an article from the New York Times "Computer Is Helping Scholars Dissect Dante at Dartmouth." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifty-ninth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips." Phillips' notes describe the calligraphy as "first layout for (illegible) titles which in the end were replaced by more conventional versions & with the order of the (illegible) names reversed at the request of Peter. How many (illegible) have been spent on unused material or wasted down blind alleys of plan & project?" The name of Bill Saint is at the bottom of the page. Other names are obliterated . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixtieth new series collage page of the Dante Diary is titled "Curtains for Dante...." A center letter is surrounded on both sides by torn illustrated stage curtains. The author of the letter is Michael Kustow, Commissioning Editor, Arts for Channel Four Television .It is addressed to Kaes Kasander of KGP Productions and states that there will be no more funding for the Dante project. He writes, "I know that all of you will be extremely disappointed - as I am - but I'm afraid that there is nothing I can do to change this decision. The first eight cantos, like a partially completed statue by Michaelangelo, will stand as a great landmark." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This sixty-first page of the new series of A TV Dante is titiled "Doomed TV Show's World Premier." This page contains annoucements from the ICA and the Tate Gallery Calendar of Events in May 1989 of a "special screening of the first 7 in a proposed series of 33 Cantos. Exploring all the possibilities of current tv/video technology they offer a rich and complex visual evocation and commentary on the poet's journey into The Inferno. Peter Greenaway and Tom Phillips hope to be present at these screenings." Phillips writes after the showing at the Tate, "Cantos I -VII plus Canto VIII without M&E track. approx 70 people inc. Peter Blake and John Furnival. I take questions afterwards." Phillips writes about the ICA showing, "Cantos I-VII. Two showings each to full house. I answer questions afterwards." After a screening in the Netherlands Phillips writes, "Cantos I-VII poorly screened - cut off at bottom. I answer questions. Many of the actors from Rotterdam shoot inc Lucy Fortune...

Scope and Contents This sixty-second page of the new series of A TV Dante is titiled "Dante in Egypt." Dated November 5, 1989. Phillips' lecture is titled "Every Picture Tells a Story." On November 8th his lecture is "I Like What I know." Phillips has purchased an 8mm Camcorder and describes his experieince. "Purchased Camcorder and first used it on this trip with battery that didn't last as long as I'd hoped. Took some useful material with various degrees of beginner's ineptitude.....inc long section of rushing water. Missed much through inadequate preparation..... Before leaving I charged Millie with looking into progress or lack of it with Kees and RM in getting Dante off the ground again.Talked to Michael and to Peter. Things don't look entirely bleak. Dante I-VII already shown on Dutch TV and apparently well-received." Phillips continues,'"8 mm video film approx 20 minutes includes rubble / wall / tombs inc. individual tombs / going along side flanking wall / huge statue Ramses II at dawn and...

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This sixty-third page is one of two numbered 63 by Phillips. The text painted in pale orange on the top side reads "We are the peo..." Below it in black stencilled letters the text reads "Michael Kustow Productions." The background consists of rows of splayed, optical figures seemingly dancing across the page over a purple abstract background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.