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The running time of this videotape that depicts a modern day version of Dante's Inferno is 90 minutes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The running time of this videotape that depicts a modern day version of Dante's Inferno is 90 minutes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the archive for the publication "Ginger Snaps," edited by Gibbs and Guthrie. It includes some of the original submissions as well as correspondence from the poets about their works and comments after the book was published. The contributions focused heavily on Gysin and Burroughs' cut-up techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cover is reproduction of page 191 from "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This review of Personal Choice: Selections from Four Alumni Collections states that "the Sackner section, installed on the second floor of the ICA, is the most intellectually challenging part of the show." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a varient of Curriculum Vitae VII which was exhibited in the Phillips retrospective at the Royal Academy in London 1992. Phillips' use of "Words-words! Make me a rose" in this painting is derived from page 353 in the original and first revised edition of "A Humument." The poetic autobiographic statement of Phillips' elementary school days was composed by Phillips himself. The underlying text of Phillips' poem depicts the word "Llareggub." In 1954, the BBC broadcast Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood, apparently unaware of the fact that the name of the fictional Welsh town Llareggub described in the play was an ingenious literary back-slang creation, namely, "bugger all" spelled backwards. The taboo nature of "bugger" is marked by the fact that Brophy and Partridge felt it necessary to dash the word in their 1931 compilation of military slang. Up until 1934, one could be fined or imprisoned for saying or writing "bugger" and has even been called "one of the most...

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Book cover is illustrated by Tom Phillips. Review of Phillips' film at White Ink Studios is illustrated with "Benches" and two pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition includes the first showing of the Curriculum Vitae paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this etching Phillips copied the label of a box of Kensitas cigarettes, but made up a ficticious character called: Ken Sitas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two paintings are mounted within a single frame. The top painting consists of colored stripes. The stenciled text of the bottom painting mentions chance and "fine and ingenious concordant terminal greys." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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John Russell contributed an introductory essay that analyzed Phillips' painting "Benches" as well as "A Humument." "Oh, those reds," a painting from 1969 to 1973, that is depicted in black & white in the catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book follows the format of "A Postcard Century" by Phillips of cards recording the twentieth century in the English speaking world. The Sackner Archive holds a copy of that publication as well as the maquette. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes description of Tom Phillips' "Humument Globes". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.