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Archive of the Limited Edition of Dante's Inferno: Canto XXVIII/2 / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-55163-9998961

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Scope and Contents

XXVIII/2 By singular good fortune a professional anatomist of distinction was numbered amongst the subscribers to the original book and Dr. B. Moxham has supplied anatomical information (cf. also XXXIV/3) and, most invaluably, the pictures of a sectioned corpse that I have used here. That the split cadavers are themselves split intc separate photographs that here are brought together as a fairly ill-fitting mosaic is itself appropriate. The worst-sliced figure can be thought to represent Mahomet (that is, as Dante thought of him) who speaks while poised to depart. The image is made up out of nine photographs with (in the original assemblage) gouache additions -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1983

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (6 prints (silkscreen) 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 11

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. 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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