Scope and Contents This artist book was created by Greenaway at the University of Humanities in Strasbourg, France, with the participation of over one hundred residents who posed for him in the nude. These photographs were combined with computer generated images that hide and reveal a multitude of manipulations using more than 2000 files. Greenaway writes, "Allegory has very largely moved underground in our cultural world. Once an important means of entirely public pictorial communication to those who could not read, it was also, in contradiction, an opportunity for infinite invention by scholars and artists keen to use it as a private language of sign and symbol, It could therefore be, at its most sophisticated, both a very public and a very private language."Greenaway used images from his own movies, paintings and graphic works as well as references from museum art, paintings and printed images over the last 600 years, plus contemporary ephemera from advertising, costume design and packaging and...

Scope and Contents This collage depicts a newspaper clipping of two photographs of Tom Phillips in France with Peter Greeneway and other attendees at an art and cinema festival. The left side of the collage depicts a drawing of a cubist head on green paper that Phillips made during one of the dinner events.The page is dated XVI.III.LXXXV. Synopsis of the 35 drawings/collages in this suite:he drawings are numbered, viz., in 4 (April, 1985), Phillips mentions having dinner with Marvin Sackner and the Ackermans in London when Marvin inspects the archive copy of Dante's Inferno. In 19, he notes sending original MS books to the Sackners. In 23 (April, 1986), Phillips recalls lunch with Marvin in NYC; in 24 he describes his exhibition at the Center for Book Arts and meeting with the Sackners. In 31 (March, 1987) he mentions meeting the Sackners in Miami and comments on Laffoley's Dante's Divine Comedy paintings (held by the Sackner Archive) through the article that appeared in Sulfur magazine. This work...

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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.

Scope and Contents This page consists of three small rectangular panels in its right third and a collaged, almost obscured text from typed carbon backing on its left two thirds. The uppermost panel on the right side is a collage made from a logograph that also appears in Phillips' Dante's Diary book, entitled "WHYSPEND." The middle panel is a handwritten, micrographic portion of Phillips diary in which he discusses meetings with Peter [Greenaway] and viewing Edward Muybridge original photographs at the V&A. The lowermost panel consists of a rectangular collage made from the Sackner Archive stationery. The section on the right two-thirds of the drawing consists of the circular drawing WHYSPEND collaged onto the typed carbon backing of "the thirty three sheets of notes to accompany the Thames and Hudson edition of Dante. A careworn piece of paper." In this collage, only an illegible shadowy remnant of words remains. This drawing anticipates the typed carbon backing for the translation of Dante's...

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In this drawing, Phillips describes the technical aspects of filming the flight of doves for a sequence of TV Dante. A drawing collaged onto the work is a line drawing of doves. Two colored photographic fragments in this work are stills taken from the Dante Inferno video. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this drawing, Phillips describes the techical difficulties that he is experiencing at CAL video in making Dante's Inferno video piece and mentions utilization of the Muybridge doves. Several words are painted on the page including Love, history, starlings and amor. The playing card, the six of hearts, torn into two fragments, is placed on the left side of the drawing, adjacent to the three versions of the word "Amor." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phillips describes the difficulties and pleasures of working on-line and rehearsing off-line. He writes, "What an enormous pleasure I have in this collaboration with Peter [Greenaway]. Sets me right back on my toes again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Announcement of presentation of Phillips & Greenaway's video, "Dante's Inferno." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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John Furnival's print, "Woful Dane Bottom," that deals with the small town that the Welsh poet W.H. Davies spent the last years of his life is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book has an illustration from "A TV Dante" by Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway. The accompanying poster is a replica of the its cover. The design layout features fractured columns with intensive use of hyphenation and varied colored texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Peter Greenaway has based his movie of 1994 on the story of Sei Shonagon a lady in waiting at the Japanese Heian Dynasty Imperial Court. He adapted this ancient story to a contemporary setting. It is a story of a contemporary Japanese woman who obsessively has her many lovers write texts on her body and she on theirs. "Our attention is drawn to view the film as an ironic demonstration that cinema, even now after hundred years of pretending to be an autonomous activity, is invariably text-driven, and almost wholly supported by literature." This book documents the script of the film and reproduces representative stills from it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a modern day version of a 10th Century Chinese story that has been brilliantly adapted, conceived, written and directed by Greenaway. It features body art using Japanese calligraphy done by Brody Neuenschwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.