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The colored photograph appears to depict a rumpled fabric with Lettrist calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colored photograph appears to depict a rumpled fabric with Lettrist calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing, that forms the back cover, consists of a fragmented rectangle of gold leaf paint placed upon a background of brown paint. This image is Baker's signature style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated as Card #90. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Has an appearance reminiscent of a Lettrist painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The Humument text of this print reads, "truant and hiding, could I such a step? - I could I could I could I could I could - I must - a suicide of tragic temper - made mistakes with me - I long to come back to my face once more." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "oppportunity / judges / all / of / us" and "upper / under / in / favor / or / fallen / is / fortune / proportionate" Added: CEND

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreams he whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floating true men - o the very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The green seen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "lovers / in horror, and / she / motionless, he / slowly filled with tears," "Her / judged / lips trembled /towards him," "passion / done for / -- I have no / emotion" "him / for me / emotion is gone, and / lost / the ghost of / fact / outgrown" "the case of the / emotions / now / withered/ lost soul / the fossil of a / former self / survives / the / mere ghost / of it." "o / perfect / days of romance are over;" "on / and / on" "in / all / ages / eve" "for / ever / eve" "eve / again. / put down the story of this...

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The drawing consists of a pattern created by the repetition of alternating light and dark lines with heavily inked spots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Francesco Gallo was the curator of this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated dbqprescard #2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Calligraphic drawings were done by Chancho. The text is presented without puctuation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work, which was commissioned by the Sackner Archive, was subsequently made into a limited edition print with the same title. The main poem in the center of the work, constructed as a paper relief from clippings of newspapers and magazines with varied typefaces and dimensions, begins "I am writing a letter on the back side of a cloud." Other briefer poems are also incorporated into the work using fragments of different languages. The major visual image is a paper relief man-feathered-animal like figure with a poem as its tail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print was reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.