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Dante Diary: Number XVI / Phillips, Tom., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53771-642838

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Scope and Contents

This sixteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 10 Mar 1980 contains two images of "Why save?" and Why spend". On the right side of the page is the verso of a post card with annotation and notes by Phillips.On the top center is a small map of the world and near by is the following text by Phillips: "A poem written in Italy almost seventy years ago now translated by a British artist and illustrated in London wiith help from various printers etc with backing from NY, Miami, Paris using paper made in Wells Somerset for lithographs made with French inks, etchings using copper from (?) silkscreens..." Phillips is off to Paris "ringing up recalcitrant backers and subscribers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1980

Creator

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.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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