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)
Extent
0 See container summary (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.
General
Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: 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 52242 United States
319-335-5921