Miami Beach More Than a Million Poems, 1986
Scope and Contents
This sculpture contains forty words hand printed in ink on the sides of ten wooden square blocks. Each block, that can rotate on a wooden dowel through hand movement, measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 cm. The words selected by Phillips for each block are: Modernism, Miami Beach, Moonlight, Memory - Inspires, Indulges, Identities, Ignores - Ambiguous, Amorous, Artistic, Abstract - Madness, Mythology, Miracles, Moments - Idiotically, Inwardly, Ineptly, Intensely - Brainless, Backward, Bohemian, Beautiful - Egoists, Emotions, Erections, Eccentrics - Always, Artfully, Already, Absurdly - Confuse, Clarify, Complete, Celebrate - History, Heartache, Happiness, Hysteria. The first letter of each block vertically spells Miami Beach.Illustrated in "Works and Text 1992 " on page 110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1986
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Full Extent
1 item : 1 sculpture (wood, ink, felt) ; 26 x 16 x 16 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
Current location: Boxed objects, Box 83
Original Sackner location: hallway 2nd flo
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, a gift from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Materials Specific Details
Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. Copies: About 1 total copies.
Processing Information
Added by: CONV; updated by: AMANDA.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa
319-335-5921
