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Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-58744-10001980
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, "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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

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

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61418-10003945
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, "oppportunity / judges / all / of / us" and "upper / under / in / favor / or / fallen / is / fortune / proportionate" Added: CEND

Dates: 1978 - 1979

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

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61145-10003912
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 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.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: V [adam and eve], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-61419-10003946
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...
Dates: 1978 - 1979