A Humument Preliminary Series Page 2 / Phillips, Tom., 1964
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Scope and Contents
Tom Phillips rediscovered these preliminary pages after they had been misplaced for 25 years and gifted them to the Sackner Archive. The image has a light pastel purple background with a pastel brown vertical line dividing it. The poem reads:"thing and one thing only wince at recording; and sullied her whole life. was a single kiss on the interesting boy.- Tell me, how deep in the mud must a woman walk before a man walk in the mud - he wants her the dephts. The woman the shallows, and over her ankles. - away with daintiness, - this woman, with her feet and body she had what she had desire of pieces of herself and what an instruction process! - a humument or two." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1964
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 drawing (gouache, ink) in mat (museum board)) ; 20 x 13 cm, in mat 32 x 25 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
alcove Phillips Humument box miscellaneous
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Phillips, 1989.
General
Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
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