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Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022

 Person

Nationality

British

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

A Human Document Page 85 [print], 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-54458-989943
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of page 85 of Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

David/Norman Press (Letter to Shit Magazine), 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-20025-20415
Scope and Contents

Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Letter to Marvin Sackner, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-41145-43126
Scope and Contents

This is the first letter written to Marvin Sackner from Tom Phillips. Sackner was moved by Phillips' exhibition in the Basel Kunsthalle. The letter begins, "Thanks for your kind letter & your good wishes re - A Humument - it has been a long haul!" He goes on extending an invitation to visit him in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Music For n Players , 1966

 Item — Folder 87: [Barcode: 31858072538444]
Identifier: CC-30059-31454
Scope and Contents

This print was silkscreened by Dave Pike at Ipswich. This score (Opus 2) consists of wavy black heavy curved lines with thinner red line intersections. Phillips provides directions on one side of the folded print in his own handwriting. The letter to John (Furnival?) describes a broadsheet/poster drawing for publication. He mentions that the musical print is "...something David Bedford asked me to do - an indeterminate piece for any number of people (to use where he teaches) -so, for interest, I enclose that too." Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 249. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Rejected Cover Design For Hansjorg Mayer 1979 Catalogue, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-54410-52461
Scope and Contents

This drawing was rejected for the cover design by Hansjorg Mayer because it was too complcated for a book cover. Thepoem reads "I had come about art - after only one readingi was able to tell her, - it was a Journal of secret scribing and hiding a work of fiction - interspersed wit used art - read the toge story - there are certain scenes and feelings" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillips's Inferno, 1997

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-28662-29962
Scope and Contents

This announcement reproduces Phillips' typewriter poem that consists of all the words of the Inferno. The original work was held by the Sackner Archive bjut later donated to PAMM. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997