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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XI/3 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54720-990155

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Scope and Contents

XI/3 As in the case of Homer in Canto IV one of the tiny heads from the initial image of Canto III is enlarged (almost X50) to represent the face of Aristotle. It is set upon a graph and contains a grid deriving from that graph in which the Aristotelian systematisation of morals which Virgil urges Dante to recall is mapped by variously shaded values. These in their turn degenerate in the lower region of the brain into more and more shapeless areas of illogicality. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (30 prints (silkscreen, lithograph) in clamshell box (museum board, paper covered, lithograph)) ; prints 42 x 32 cm, in box 44 x 35 x 8 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

1904 shelf Phillips Dante Inferno Archive box 5

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 : Talfourd Press. Signed by: Tom Phillips (l.r. stage:30). Nationality of creator: British. General: Added by: BARB; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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