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The print in the center depicts the silhoutte of a girl feeding the doves in black and white and on the background one can see the silhouttes of doves flying as depicted in black and blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was illustrated by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pascal notes that the Mantegna painting "The Agony in the Garden" is the basis for Phillips' images on page 151 of "A Humument" and illustration XX/3 in "Dante's Inferno." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Houedard writes next to the title," really to be played on 4 foghorns - one each of 4 islands." Other instructions are for playing with variations of the letters cage and two long bars of notes also based on the name cage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The dimensions of the postcards in the early 20th century were much smaller than contemporary postcards and the image and message were written on the same side up to about 1905. After 1905, the dimensions remained small but the messages were written on the side opposite to the image. Each folder has handwritten reproductions of the messages on the card inscribed by Phillips. Further, the publisher of each card is written by Phillips on the back cover of the two museum board folder. One of the postcards in 1903 that was written in code was deciphered by Phillips. One of the postcards in 1908 that depicts an advertisement with the appearance of concrete poetry. Phillips mentions this observation and cites the Sackner Archive. One of the cards in 1913 advertising cigarettes and another in 1914 depicting the Panama Canal have surrealistic qualities. A card in 1922 has a visual poetic image.A card in 1938 depicts the infamous Nazi Entartete Kunst exhibition house. A card in 1940 shows a...

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This painting was commissioned by Ruth & Marvin Sackner. It consists of 90 small paintings on masonite assembled as a grid within a single frame. It includes several personal jokes and aphorisms known to the Sackners and Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card depicts a stylized version of a mask. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips pays homage to Frans Hals in a review of Hals' retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In Phillips' book Works and Text (1992), he indicates that this print (page 134) was based upon two types of weathered matchbox trays from behind the Iron Curtain. This print constitutes one of six prints from walking 1/2 mile around Phillips' studio - it is based on the belief that there are no dull walks, only dull walkers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Grumman uses Phillips' Humument process on a page from a mathematical book on boundries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Title page was designed by Tom Phillips; missing dust jacket designed by Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dust jacket and title page were designed by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jos De Putter contributed an essay on "TV Dante" by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. This is illustrated by four photographic reproductions of Phillips' "Dante Diary" collages. The original collages are held by the Sackner Archive -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this etching Phillips copied the label of a box of Kensitas cigarettes, but made up a ficticious character called: Ken Sitas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with Phillips' response to the political situation which developed after Rushdie wrote "The Satanic Verses" and the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran offered one million dollars for his assassination because he believed that the book was offensive to Islam. Phillips uses Humument imagery to respond to this false accusation. An image of Rushdie captioned "Jack Hughes" with a painting of Dreyfus in the background signifies the French statement by Emile Zola, "J'Accuse." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Norman Rosenthal has contributed a preface and Tom Phillips an introduction to the book that consists of letter and semi-figurative drawings as well as doodles made by Phillips on pages of the agenda of meetings of the board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art and the British Museum while he was a participant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.