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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...

Scope and Contents The introduction of this catalogue was written by Gerard Xuriguera. Wikipedia: Gianni Bertini (1922-2010) From 1947, he produced abstract painting. In 1950 , he moved to Milan and made stain painings that were exhibited in October 1951 at the Galleria Numero in Florence which constituted the first examples of "nuclear art." Returning to Paris, he had his first solo exhibition (Arnaud Gallery) held in May 1952. From 1954 , he participated in the Salon de Mai. In 1957 , he was part of the "imaginary spaces" proposed by group Restany. He traveled extensively throughout Europe with solo exhibitions in Brussels , Copenhagen , Schiedam , Amsterdam. He moved to the United States where he worked with the Gres Gallery in Chicago. In 1961, he was invited to the Konsthall in Lund ( Sweden ) for a major retrospective which is then resumed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. It is close to the New Realism and 1962 exhibited at the Galerie J "real country." He uses photographic...