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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: After Rilke. Stage Proof, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61424-10003951
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Bathers in Pitch , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61421-10003948
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [boat of dreams] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-61429-10003956
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, "falter / drop / fall" "silent, lost / and helpless / sailing" "boat of dreams, and / lost / fear" "boat which is the dream / wreck Come / in" "for / none / return / from the Chance / in themselves / contained" -- Source of annotation: CEND.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Brunetto Study, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61415-10003942
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto III [bitter boating], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-36711-38528
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. This print illustrates the canto in which Dore depicts Charon rowing a boat in the river Acheron in a lake with Phillips' comments from A Humument with the words, "bitter boating." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto IV , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-36714-38531
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. The print depicts a bust of Dante with a Humument text that begins, " six now, - with him there, the foremost in Europe - that poets of poets..." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto V , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36730-38553
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. This print depicts intertwined figures suggesting sexual intercourse. Part of A Hument page has been collaged onto the print with a poem that reads, "all the time -For all the time - a curse for ever! - a tissue of interlacing twofold consciousness - ourselves united - passion all the time." 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. Tom Phillips altered this image in Canto V in his final version of the Inferno such that the calligraphic text was eliminated, the background was changed from black to gray and pink, a giant phallus with balls was depicted, and only the Humument text without...
Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XIII 28-78 / Phillips, Tom., 1978 - 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-61416-10003943
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, "Already the dream of dreamshe whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floatingtrue men - othe very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The greenseen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XIII (II), 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36713-38530
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. The Humument text of this print reads, " master -- if these trees could talk, what hard observations were in that ache of wood." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XV (Brunetto), 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-28340-29521
Scope and Contents This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips annotated this print which he reproduced in the final version of Dante's Inferno. The calligraphic, Italian text of the poem on the bottom left corner of this Editions Alecto print was eliminated in the Talfourd Press version. Phillips' commentary in the Thames and Hudson edition of Dante's Inferno iconographical notes and commentary reads, "in a welter of fire Ser Brunetto [Dante's teacher Brunetto Latini] races away across the plain. The figure is from a watercolour that I made from one of Muybridge's indispensable photo sequences from 'The Human Figure in Motion.' Dante's teacher is here seen as if heading for the cloth of green mentioned at the end of the Canto as the prize in a foot-race (in which indeed the runners are naked). The green echoes the shape once again of the lawn of a 'Folly...
Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Centaurs, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61417-10003944
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. Text reads "amongst a group of / the figure of a man / made over / some wild-eyed / horse / impetuously" "savage / in the great / deep irregular ditch / vague masses of / red / red / princely / men were / shadows and echo, and the horses tramped" Added: CEND

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Dark Wood Plate I, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61422-10003949
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Fireflies, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61428-10003955
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Fireflies II / Phillips, Tom., 1978 - 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-46324-49047
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. This print depicts a side silhouette of Dante's face gazing at disintegrating fleur-de lyes. The Humument text of this print reads, "the fire-flies vibrate, some near, some distant. ages among the A pennines - speak stances What grand stances - o Italy - If ever I do resent- my music of the conscious pen - the din the clatter - clatter of purpose pushed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [fully banished] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36712-38529
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. This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Giacco, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61426-10003953
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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [Good Friday] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-28373-29568
Scope and Contents

This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips did not select this image for his final version of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [I represent reason], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-28372-29567
Scope and Contents

This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips did not select this image for his final version of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Malebolge, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-36721-38544
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. The print depicts concentric, colored semicircles on a gray background with A Humument text that reads, " ten pungent valleys - they smell the wolves' haunt and continue." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Minotaur, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61420-10003947
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, "with every nerve / stretched / the hard /exaggeration / ugh / ugh / came / into his / hidden / woman / lacerating / Angry, savage / creature / of his blind / fantastic / cow / the / Once, one / only last / of a new kind / mixed with pain. He / hardly recognized himself." Added: CEND.

Dates: 1978 - 1979