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This suite of prints was given to all prepublication subscribers to Dante's Inferno. It originally conprised eight prints but one was given to Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips' introduction gives the reasons for undertaking his translation and publication of the Dante"Inferno." The Sackner Archive holds the following works shown in this exhibition: 1) A Dante Diary, 2) one of two Archive copies containing the stage and color proof prints of Dante's Inferno, 3) the 15 Notebooks dealing with the translation and illustrations of the Inferno, 4) the limited edition Inferno, and 5) proofs which survived the fire at Editions Alecto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first edition of Dante's Inferno in which both the translation and the illustrations were done by the same person. Two representive illustrations are depicted in this record. In the image illustrating Canto III, Phillips describes the changes in his notes to the book. "Not satisfied with any of the colour trials I made in the first version of this, which depicted the dreary waters of the Styx, I cut the various proofs into strips and brought different versions into conjunction, hence the appropriate half repetition of the short text which, together with the recapitulations of the same stretch of the sombre steam, suggests the monotony of Charon's task as Ferryman. The words 'bitter boating' seemed also to echo his mocking speech."In the image that illustrates Canto V from the initial proof copy, Phillips eliminated the calligraphic text of the poem, changed the background from black to gray and pink, painted a giant phallus with balls entering the vagina, printed the...

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Tom Phillips illustrated the front cover of music disc by the heavy metal British rock group, "Dark Star," with an altered page from a book that is not identified. He also fragmented the text of this page. He employed "A Humument" style to bring out the poetic line "I am the sun," one of the songs in this disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips illustrated the front cover of music disc by the heavy metal British rock group, "Dark Star," with an altered page from a book that is not identified. He also fragmented the text of this page. He employed "A Humument" style to bring out the poetic line "I am the sun," one of the songs in this disc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips illustrated the front cover with a section from page 25 of an unidentified book, possibly lyrics by this British heavy metal group, "Dark Star." He employed the same source for the tri-fold collage reproduced as a lining for the the inside surface of the folder. The three cards depict visual poetic elements in "A Humument" style, including the same image of page 25 on the cover as well as pages 7 and 11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips illustrated the front cover with a section from page 25 of an unidentified book, possibly lyrics by this British heavy metal group, "Dark Star." He employed the same source for the tri-fold collage reproduced as a lining for the the inside surface of the folder. The three cards depict visual poetic elements in "A Humument" style, including the same image of page 25 on the cover as well as pages 7 and 11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips exhibited 'Irma', 'Peckham Heads' and 'Mapwalk' in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology the aim of this exhibition, which is illustrated by a selection of portraits of personalities over 300 years eg. Jenner, Curie, Darwin and Einstein. Tom Phillips is representing by a painting of Professor Peter Goddard and preparatory work for the portrait of Professor Susan Greenfield. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book cover is illustrated by Tom Phillips. Review of Phillips' film at White Ink Studios is illustrated with "Benches" and two pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of "Merry Meetings" by Phillips that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was written to accompany Phillips' exhibition during the Van Cliburn competition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This volume, edited and with an introduction by Lorin Cuoco, accompanied the catalogue for "The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist-the Artist as Writer" exhibition at the Washington University Gallery of Art. Cuoco writes in the introduction as follows. "We were greatly inspired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, where William Gass first saw the work of Tom Phillips, and where the collaborators went to observe for themselves the great treasures of this collecting couple. As a consequence of this visit, Kevin Ray, the head of special collections of Washington University's Olin Library, decided to devote an entire exhibit to Tom Phillips' work on the translation and illustration of Dante's Inferno...We extend our thanks to the lenders of the exhibition and to the museums and galleries that provided the permission and reproductions for this volume. The greatest debt, though, is to Ruth and Marvin Sackner for their constant generosity...

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Announces the first selection of Phillips' prints to be published in the Editions Alecto Collectors Club. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was the first purchase by the Sackners of a Tom Phillips artwork. It was acquired fom Galerie Bama in Paris. According to the colophon, this is a suite of 12 lithographs bvased on Brahms Opus 45. The images were derived from postcards collected by Phillips in Germany and have inset texts, which are treated fragments of the novel 'A Human Document' by W H Mallock, and titles quoting the textural material of the Requiem itself. One of the prints has been framed and hangs in the first floor hallway. In the BBC Music magazine (JUne 2013), comments about the CD of the month Brahms's 'A German Requiem' included the following.This Requiem does not mention Jesus nor is there a fire-breathing 'Dies Irae' striking fear into souls of potentially errant isteners! This is a requiem that sets a German not Latin text to music and doesn't pray for the well-being of the dead but instead comforts the living. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gertrude Nuding composed this text describing Tom Phillips' creation of the DVD portrait of the Director of the RI, Susan Greenfield. The Sackners were invited by Phillips to participate in the vernissage of the electronic portrait and the preliminary drawings at the Royal Institution in November, 2000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.