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

 Item
Identifier: CC-53909-642928

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Scope and Contents

Page 41 contains Phillips' handwritten note "IX/LXXXI. Dante died 660 years ago today." Phillips describes his work on the cantos and the sale of several works. The page is collaged with bits of leopard skin printed papers and a page from " A Hument Document" on which Phillips has selected a line of text "dissipation, and the animal curves taken by the plausible" and placed it in a drawn arrow that also appearse in a nearby sketch. -- 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: London, England : [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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