Dante Diary: Number XVIII / Phillips, Tom., 1980
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Scope and Contents
This eighteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 20 May 1980 is titled "Dante in the Great Rift Valley." Phillips writes,"Short stay in Kenya & hired a small red Japanese car& drove towards the great rift valley...in the Kenya phone book only one Dante a diesel shop.On the way back saw DANTE in large letters on a wall driving to the airport. A wall I saw a moment later was obscuring the BURBA which was the second name of the same Deisel workshop. Off to Ghana on Ethiopian airways." The fragment from the phone book containing the name of Dante Burba is collaged on the top right of this page.One small red car is rubber stamped and painted and three others are unpainted and stamped with the word carro. A card contianing an abstract drawing of "The ferryman on Lake Nawasha" is collaged on the bottom center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1980
Creator
- Phillips, Tom, 1937-2022 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 drawing (ink, ink colored, gouache, collaged, rubberstamped, handwriting) in pvc laminate + artist box (cloth covered)) ; 26 x 29 cm, in box 39 x 44 x 5 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
alcove 2nd bedroom Phillips Dante diary box
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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