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...

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 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.