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A Humument Page 292 (Stand Alone Page) / Phillips, Tom., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-46238-48957

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Scope and Contents

The page depicts a face with a haze obscuring it (Tom Phillips?) in its center surrounded by rows of face-like images that have been copied from London water pipe covers and resemble African masks. The poem reads, "art impulses - the impulse to complete - as the impulse to figure this last image - of dispair he began to shape - a whole volume of secret faces." Flowers Gallery NYC 2006 priced Humument fragments (part of a page) that are about 70% the size of Humument pages at $5,000. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1976

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 drawing (ink, gouache watercolor)) ; 19 x 13 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.

General

Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Tom Phillips (l.r.). Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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